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The exchange of coup threats between Communists and Socialists culminated a severe spate of military and civilian disorder. It began with a series of violent protests by veterans of Portugal's African wars. They included an abortive attempt to kidnap the Pinheiro de Azevedo Cabinet and peaked when a...
Over anti-Jewish prejudice seems to have peaked in the '20s and '30s when large numbers of children of immigrants began to enter college. This pressure led many schools to impose quotas on the admission of Jewish students. President Lowell of Harvard and President Butler of Columbia openly defended Jewish...
Administration economists continue to insist that the inflation rate will subside soon-perhaps to 6% or 7%, which, to be sure, would still be distressingly high. Last week in Vail, Colo., President Ford's chief economic adviser, Alan Greenspan, said of the CPI for August: "We do expect it...
Not a bit of it. Family tune is a cynical compromise reached by the FCC and the networks to deflect mounting protests, in and out of Congress, about the rising tide of TV violence. Criticism peaked last fall when NBC aired at 8 p.m. a seamy story (Born Innocent) about...
Lownes has no authority over Playboy magazine, which still brings in well over a third of corporate revenues. Playboy's circulation peaked at 7 million in late 1972; during the past six months it has averaged 5.8 million, one of the greatest reader losses in magazine history. Since that...