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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kilbridge said alumni support for the GSD has increased recently and added that annual giving "has built up steadily over the past four or five years...

Author: By Richard F. Strasser, | Title: Kilbridge to Resign As Dean of GSD | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

They have logged some 4 million flight hours in the past eight years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Worst U.S. Air Crash | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...liberal-to-moderate Democrats, the twelve senators had blocked legislation and opposed Hobby so often in the past that he had dubbed them "the Killer Bees." They did not so much mind an early primary as they did the plan to divide the voting into two events: one in March for President, the second in May for state offices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Flight of the Killer Bees | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...Lieutenant Governor, after announcing his support for the split primary, went beyond his usual genial role as presiding officer of the senate and began lobbying actively for the bill. When prospects for passage continued to look bleak, Hobby tried to slip the measure past the Bees by bringing up an innocuous election funding bill that, he figured, could be amended to provide for the dual primary. When Hobby called up the funding bill, the Killer Bees struck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Flight of the Killer Bees | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...youngest Prime Minister ever and its first Tory leader since John Diefenbaker was defeated by Lester Pearson in 1963. Clark faces the most difficult challenge that has confronted Canada in the 112 years since confederation: reconciling a nation that has never quite come to grips with its divided past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: From Trudeau to Plain Joe | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

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