Word: motors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prior to this year, students at the Quad parked their cars on the streets around Radcliffe, despite a University regulation that "undergraduates living in a dormitory and residents of any University housing, may not park motor vehicles on any Cambridge street between the hours...
...invoked to justify a major political overhaul, it becomes important to understand the limits and implications of the concept. Culture is the sensuous expression of a people; it is an amalgam of historically accumulated arts and skills which allows people to express and develop their creativity. The crucial motor of culture is activity, for it is only through applying oneself that one can learn, and it is only through doing that one can express...
...language barrier separating French civil servants from the English corporate world, Quebec's bureaucrats are less immediately sensitive to conservative business influence than are most other bureaucracies. The consequence of rapidly creating a nationalist and non-business oriented civil service is that the bureaucracy itself is a powerful motor force for Quebec's independence...
...exceptional handful did spectacularly well in 1977, even though their raises were not much. The nation's biggest executive earner was Henry Ford II, chairman of Ford Motor Co. Last week the company announced that his salary and bonus edged up 2%, to $992,000. In all, General Motors Chairman Thomas Murphy earned $975,000, an increase of 2.6% over the year before. Mobil Chairman Rawleigh Warner Jr. got $725,000, up 4% from 1976. (For some other high executive moneymakers, see listing...
Madame Rosa won an Oscar last week as the best foreign film of 1977, but the honor seems slightly askew. Director Moshe Mizrahi's film is so unashamedly a vehicle for a grand old actress that the award might better have been made by Motor Trend magazine. Signoret is marvelous as the lovable old baggage. Samy Ben Youb is luminous as Momo, the 14-year-old Arab boy who sticks with Madame Rosa to the end. Claude Dauphin is gallant as the indomitable old doctor who tends Rosa, and who is himself so rickety that he must be carried...