Word: peake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans' proposal to charge $230 in the off season and $299 during June, July and August for the same service. So unless some compromise is found, the deadlock could lead to a continuation of present fares (minimum price: $313 round trip for 22 to 45 days in peak season, with no advance reservation) or even a rate war after the current international agreement on ticket prices runs out on March...
...should hear the 'Harambee Singers.' Bernice Reagon is the guiding force behind the group which consists of four black women. During the peak of the civil rights movement in the South, she was a member of the Freedom Singers. She and her songs have changed in congruence with the shifts in the political emphases of the black liberation struggle. To hear them is to live momentarily in the history and the future they project for black people in America...
...years, NBC'S Johnny Carson was the undisputed king of late-night television. During part of that time, CBS and ABC scarcely bothered to try to topple him from the peak of the Nielsen ratings. When they did, as in CBS'S venture with Merv Griffin in a Carson-style format, they flopped. CBS eventually gave up and last year opted for the sizable audience of insomniacs who want nothing more than to watch old movies. Now ABC thinks that it has found still a third audience with what it calls its Wide World of Entertainment...
Ruth C. Streeter '76, president of the Ad Hoc committee to Save Storm King, admitted that a new plant is needed to provide power for peak periods, but said that "It is a very important case for environmentalists to win." Con Ed has maintained that it needs to build the power plant to meet the summer power crisis...
...magazine Family Circle. Pershare earnings of the newspaper itself declined 2?, to 54?. Daily circulation increased only 9,900 to 851,000, which is 174,900 below the record high of November 1968. Sunday sales went up only 1,500, to 1,453,000, or 150,500 below the peak figure. Advertising linage grew by 7.2%, but nearly half this increase was in cut-rate suburban editions. Overall, the showing was poor compared with the recovery made by most publishers from the mediocre showing...