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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Panama Canal was given away for fear the U.S. Army couldn't defend it against rebels, but these same old goats are going to stop the Soviet army in Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 8, 1979 | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...Danforth Foundation will end a 28-year-old fellowship program that provides funding for graduate students who want to become college teachers...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin and The CRIMSON Staff, S | Title: Danforth Will Cut Fellowships | 10/6/1979 | See Source »

...role of Douglas's wife Adele is probably the most difficult in the show. While Mrs. Douglas narrates the play from the perspective of old age, she also appears as a young wife. Unfortunately, actress Kathryn Kirkwood goes overboard in an attempt to distinguish between the two roles...

Author: By Amy R. Gutman, | Title: Rivalling the Worst | 10/6/1979 | See Source »

Northeastern University has paid $250,000 for 67-year-old Boston Arena, long the inner-city home of Husky hockey, which N.U. had been renting for $.per year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: N. U. Buys Arena | 10/5/1979 | See Source »

...named Reginald H. Jones. You won't find his face plastered across the front page of the New York Daily News. Instead, you might spy him in the back corridors of Capitol Hill, where he is respected as co-chair of the mighty Business Roundtable lobby. His 62-year-old countenance is also familiar in Greenwich, Ct., where his well-to-do neighbors doubtless regard him as an upstanding citizen, hard-working and proud of his son and daughter. Yet in his office in nearby Fairfield, Jones toils quietly as the chief executive of General Electric--a firm that profits...

Author: By Mark R. Anspach, | Title: Radiating Revolt | 10/5/1979 | See Source »

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