Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Poussaint, who has contributed often to The New York Times, the Boston Globe and Ebony, plans more extensive writing, both academic and popular. He is the author of "Why Blacks Kill Blacks" and co-author of "Black Child Care...
Fewer Radcliffe graduates are going directly to graduate schools and business has replaced the media and education as the most popular field of employment for women graduates in the Class of '77, a recent poll by the Radcliffe Alumnae Career Services (RACS) office indicates...
...believe that the Shah is in any danger of being overthrown. Iran's monarch still has the machinery of power firmly in his hands. The Shah also has a broad base of popular support, particularly in the army and among farmers and a newly created industrial working class, who have benefited from land reforms and measures giving workers 20% of the profits of companies employing them and allowing them to buy up to 49% of the company's shares...
...West Germany, home of the defending World Cup champions, one of the most popular songs on the hit parade is a ditty called Buenos Días, Argentina. It features the 22 members of the German national team themselves, and despite the fact that it is, well, awful, the record is expected to sell a million copies by kickoff time. Some 5,000 German fans had bought tickets for the World Cup event at prices ranging from $200 to $333 per seat, and were cheerfully anteing up as much as $3,000 each for air fare and accommodations besides. German...
...Still, under these difficult conditions, during a period of 25,000 years before the dawn of civilization, the Ice Age Cro-Magnon people not only thrived, but created a surprisingly sophisticated culture that totally belies the popular image of them as savage, club-swinging brutes...