Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like an auto company showing off its new cars, the beleaguered Chrysler Corp. last week unveiled its shining new 1980 model management. Lee Iacocca, 54, the razzmatazz marketing whiz and former Ford president who joined Chrysler only last November, was elected chairman to replace John Riccardo, 55, who surprisingly retired...
President Carter declared last week that the strike against the Rock Island was causing severe economic disruption. This meant that he was able to invoke a 60-day cooling-off period under the National Labor Relations Act and send the strikers back to their jobs while a three-member emergency...
By dawn, staff members of the tiny Madison Press Connection (circ. 11,398) were distributing copies of an eight-page "extra" edition around Wisconsin's capital. The innocuous-sounding front-page headline: A CITIZEN WRITES TO A SENATOR. The incendiary subject: hydrogen bomb "secrets" with details and even a...
Kissinger had a chance to compare Soviet and Chinese negotiating styles because of a momentous development: the opening to China. As he notes, "policy emerges when concept encounters opportunity, "and Nixon realized that the bloody border clashes between Soviet and Chinese troops in the summer of 1969 presented just such...
Kissinger's arrival in Peking was set for July 9; the cover was a lengthy "information trip" through Asia beginning July 1 and taking him to Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, whence he slipped away by means of an elaborate ruse. Among other things, this involved a predawn drive to Chaklala...