Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House has completely ruled out a beef price freeze. Little wonder. It was President Nixon's desperation move to clamp controls on beef prices in 1973 that caused much of today's shortages and high prices. Though cattle producers' prices were frozen, their overhead costs continued to rise. Many could not afford to feed their animals and had to sell off large numbers just to stay solvent. As more beef came onto the market, prices briefly fell. But the size of the nation's herds also plummeted from 132 million cattle...
Between 1959 and 1963, Wills wrote books on Chesterton, Catholicism and Roman culture, in addition to working on a doctoral dissertation on Aeschylus. During the '60s, his pieces in Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post established him as a journalist of the first rank. His Nixon Ag- onistes (1969) still has the longest shelf-life of any book on the former President. Last year Historian Wills published Inventing America, a fresh look at the roots of Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. The work has already won several literary prizes. A few weeks ago, he was holed...
...present senior class arrived at Harvard six years after the Strike, a year after Nixon resigned, and half a year after the last American helicopter took off from the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. It arrived with a certain lack of faith in large institutions' abilities to do good, a certain belief that individuals could change those institutions only slowly and deliberately, and a certain feeling that one has to cover one's own ass. The year of the students' arrival--1975--has been remembered by administrators and undergraduate advisers as one of the peak years...
...Harvard heavyweight crew, no longer, as Richard Nixon might have said, "a helpless, pitiful, giant," cruised back into its accustomed position as the nation's crew-to-beat with its victory in the San Diego Classic two weeks ago. Today, Brown takes the first shot at the best in the Crimson's home-opener in the Charles Basin...
...Board is Robert O. Anderson, the entrepreneur responsible for the mergers that turned the company into an industry giant. Anderson's many political pursuits have won him a place in the current Who's Who in American Politics. Most notably, Anderson was a member of the finance committee of Nixon for President in 1967-68. Anderson was one of the oil executives who successfully sought Walter Hickel's nomination as Secretary of the Interior. Hickel was a development-minded governor of Alaska, and ARCO was intent on exploiting its North Slope holdings. Anderson served as a Republican National Committeeman from...