Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...50th year of his reign, the Emperor still has that urge to travel. This week he and Empress Nagako, 72, finally begin a sentimental and ceremonial journey to the U.S. Their 13-day visit will be a carefully orchestrated imperial progress, part state occasion, part tourist rubbernecking. For ten months, ever since President Ford formally extended a renewed invitation to the Emperor during his visit to Japan last year, U.S. and Japanese diplomats and security officials have worked over travel and protocol details that now pack a book two inches thick. The imperial couple will have plenty of help keeping...
Although the Boston walkout was the largest teachers' strike in the nation, last week at least 36 other strikes were in progress in ten states. Probably the most bitter was in Wilmington, Del, where 253 teachers were arrested last week on charges of disorderly conduct after police broke up a picket line outside the school administration building. All told, more than 400 of Wilmington's 800 teachers have been arrested or cited for contempt of court since the strike started Sept. 2. The mass arrests resulted from the aggressive policies of politically ambitious Mayor Thomas Maloney...
Although the final figures aren't in yet, it looks like the mini-campaign approach may be the best tactic for weak-economy fundraising; Yale, with a general fund drive currently in progress, fell 60 per cent, last year, an $18-million nosedive...
...better contract; they were trying to find out if the N.F.L. Players Association was a viable union. Since the failure of last year's strike, the owners have felt no pressing need to bargain with the players' group. "We're tired of waiting for negotiations to progress," announced Randy Vataha, Patriot wide receiver and player representative. "Let's see if the owners are serious-and whether the players are serious...
...cannot allow ourselves to peak" and fall behind the progress other universities are making in undergraduate education, Rosovsky said. "Many institutions are snapping at our heels...