Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oldest TV soap, Search has run for 25 years, and so has Mary Stuart as the thrice-widowed housewife Joanne Vincente...
...water-treatment equipment firm and a phototypesetting product line, Singer's management is clearly concentrating on reducing a debt that now exceeds $700 million and increasing earnings that peaked in 1973 at $94 million on $2.4 billion in sales. Throughout Singer's fling with multinational conglomeration, its oldest product never stopped making money. In 1974 the consumer-products division, chiefly sewing machines, earned $34 million and is thought to have turned a profit of $36 million...
...ways. If this progress seems insubstantial, it is because the rest of the world does not really understand the pace and the movement and the music of South Asia. Our quarrel, whether you call it an Indo-Pakistani dispute or a Hindu-Moslem one, is by far the oldest in the world. It goes back for centuries, and was further fanned by 150 years of British imperialism and its policy of divide and rule. Ancient feelings don't disappear all at once. But the Simla conference in June 1972 [at which Bhutto and Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi agreed...
Some are legitimate enterprises, some offer vague sexual titillation, and many are simply brothels. Parlors that advertise or hint at "full sexual services" are spreading across the country as fast as fast-food stores.* Indeed, the massage-parlor phenomenon is an American twist on the world's oldest profession: merchandising women's bodies in storefronts, complete with ad budgets and payment by credit card...
Died. Anna Roosevelt Halsted, 69, oldest child and only daughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt; of cancer; in New York City. When she was 15 and her father was stricken with poliomyelitis, the devoted Anna became his helper and ultimately his close associate. In 1926 she married Curtis B. Ball, a New York stockbroker, whom she divorced after eight years and two children. She next married John Boettiger, a Chicago Tribune correspondent and acrimonious critic of the New Deal. The couple moved to Seattle, where he became publisher of the Hearst Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and she edited the women...