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...ebullient surge did not happen overnight, but in fits and starts from the mid-1970s onward. After Viet Nam and Watergate, America seemed to have lost much of its confidence and moral energy. The nation's mood, as measured...
...cold father and a childhood spent on the rough edge of poverty in Idaho. Young Wilson showed a flair for manipulating other people, without undue regard for affection or morality; this trait aided his work as an operative for the CIA and the Office of Naval Intelligence. By the mid-1970s, Wilson had achieved a shadowy prominence in Washington. As Goulden tells it, scores of Government officials, Congressmen and Pentagon officers were mesmerized by the not-so-secret agent's lethal charm...
...October. Harvard agreed to repay $4.6 million to the government, settling a year-long dispute over charges that the University had mishandled federal research funds at the Medical School and the School of Public Health. The charge arose out of two major audits conducted at the schools in the mid-1970s...
Texas Select is one of at least six new brews that look and taste much like regular beer but have little or no intoxicating effect. With these lighter-than-Lite beverages, U.S. brewers are making their boldest move since the introduction of low-calorie beer in the mid-1970s. Brewers hope the new brands will put fizz back into sales, which have gone flat following strong growth in the 1970s...
...fact, coke is believed to be the drug most abused among women, outstripping Valium, which has come under fairly strict controls since the mid-1970s, when it was the No. 1 prescription drug. Under pressure from drug-abuse experts, Valium's manufacturer, Hoffmann-La Roche, has dramatically cut production of the drug, and many doctors have stopped prescribing it for simple anxiety. In 1975, 60 million prescriptions for Valium were written in the U.S., compared with 25 million in 1983. Says McEneaney: "Since two out of three Valium prescriptions are written for women, presumably many females who cannot...