Word: paged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shaking up his White House staff, perhaps firing top aides; the President was having a mental breakdown; the President was preparing to resign. As Washington waited, the dollar plunged on international financial markets. The New York Post summed up the spreading bewilderment by demanding, in its blackest front-page type: WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU UP TO, MR. PRESIDENT...
...news was tersely stated on page 3 of Algeria's official government newspaper El Moudjahid: "On the occasion of the 17th anniversary of independence, the measures involving Mr. Ben Bella have been lifted." Thus last week ended the 14-year ordeal of Algeria's first President and its most charismatic revolutionary leader, the onetime hero of Third World leftists. Ousted from the presidency in a 1965 coup by his Defense Minister, Houari Boumedienne, Ahmed ben Bella had been held incommunicado with his wife and two adopted children in a variety of apartments, most recently in a heavily guarded...
...describes a Junior Chamber of Commerce convention, a group of stolid conventional young burghers who are genuinely puzzled by the furor around them. Why don't students want a Jaycee group on campus? Why can't the girl who takes a full page ad in Daily Variety to advertise her availability as a star realize her dream? Why do bikers gangbang women, trash stores? Didion answers...
...audience, "I'm here because as a white feminist and a woman-identified woman, I perceive these events in Boston as evidence of the depth of woman-hating." Although she believes if the murdered women had been attached to powerful white men their stories would have "covered the front page of the New York Times," Rich urged the audience that "there is no selective privilege for women...
Among other things, a 20-page press kit being distributed by the Mint urges bankers to "consider naming your new branch the Susan B. Anthony branch" and sponsoring poetry contests in her name. Retailers are encouraged to "schedule a Susan B. Anthony sale week," and citizens' groups, are exhorted to throw bingo or "Susan"parties using the coins as prizes. Diagrams show merchants how to reorganize their cash drawers to accommodate the coin...