Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gordon Liddy to pick up my award...
...swallowing up American companies or forming their own U.S. subsidiaries to produce goods as diverse as turbines and carpets, chocolate and steel. The tide of investment from overseas has been significantly quickened by the abysmal decline in U.S. stock prices, which enables dollar-laden European and Japanese businessmen to pick up U.S. concerns at bargain rates. Of the corporations buying into America, Frank Sheaffer, the Commerce Department's international investment chief, says: "It is never going to be cheaper for them than...
...public upon which they depend for making movies. The Cambridge films may not be the most Now thing on the movie market, but they are rich in movie classics. The Orson Welles (1001 Mass Ave.) contains a film school and a restaurant, aside from its two theaters. Pick up a schedule because the Welles holds week long festivals at least one of which will be worth planning ahead for. Cambridge's other three theaters--the Brattle, the Harvard Square, and the Central are all under the same ownership. The Brattle specializes in classic, popular and auteur revivals--Cagney and Bogart...
...continue. In such a case, national elections would be held within 35 days. Among the possible successors: Minister of Finance Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 47, and former Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas, 58. If Pompidou decided to step down, he would almost certainly attempt to hand-pick a successor...
Voice of Love. Particularly in Arab countries, where illiteracy rates run high, radio is heavily relied on as a source of both entertainment and information. Almost every family can afford a cheap transistor, which is able to pick up most of the high-powered stations-including special services of the Voice of America, the BBC, Radio Moscow and Albania's Radio Tirana-as well as local broadcasts. On the night of a speech by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Cairo streets echo with the sound of his harsh voice...