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Word: nationalizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cynical '70s Kennedy fell victim to history's need of a scapegoat. The nation was sick, disillusioned, embittered. Idealism had given way to disappointment and the sins of Johnson and Nixon were visited upon Kennedy. He was portrayed as the villain of the piece...

Author: By Gerard Rice, | Title: 15 Years After Dallas | 11/22/1978 | See Source »

Somehow the tragic circumstances surrounding his death and the flood of sympathy which that released came to obscure what had actually happened. Achievements emasculated blunders. Washington became Camelot. Myth replaced reality. The nation craved a hero and Kennedy fit the bill. When Dave Powers said that "Being with Jack Kennedy in the White House was like dying and going to heaven," he captured the mood of the country at that time. It had all seemed so exciting, so different from the seamier Johnson and Nixon years. Kennedy had indeed been the best and the brightest...

Author: By Gerard Rice, | Title: 15 Years After Dallas | 11/22/1978 | See Source »

Coach Bill McCurdy summed it all up to manager John Currier after the men's cross country team finished second to last at the NCAA championships held yesterday in Madison, Wis.: "Look at it this way, John. We're 28th in the nation...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: The Herd Concludes Very Successful Season By Taking 28th Spot at NCAA Championship | 11/21/1978 | See Source »

...multimillion-dollar conglomerate; of an apparent heart attack; in Fort Worth. During World War II, Tandy noticed that disabled sailors liked leather-craft, and started marketing scraps and tools to hospitals through his father's shoe-leather company. By the early 1960s, he directed Tandy Corp., the nation's largest purveyor of handicrafts, and in 1963 added a bankrupt chain of ham-radio shops called Radio Shack that he eventually expanded into a company of 6,500 outlets, currently grossing more than $1 billion yearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 20, 1978 | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

Enter the jolly trio of Sandro, a rich, glossy Italian count; Jenny, a golden-haired English aristocrat; and Colly, a wisecracking American who enjoys one of his nation's largest inherited fortunes. Relaxing in Istanbul, they stumble across the huge drug operation run by Mustafa Algan Bey, ostensibly Turkey's premier dealer in precious carpets. Their adventures take them in and out of jail cells, dungeons, buses, trucks and steamers and across the length and breadth of Poppyland. About the only peril they do not indulge in is erotica. However, Scotsman Ivor Drummond's dippy novel could also serve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skuldruggery and High Technology | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

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