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Word: provenances (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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INVENTORS have a way of getting bored with their creations, and would-be magazine mogul Jann Wenner has proven to be yet another restless mind too impatient to busy himself with perfecting what he gave birth to. As his personal plaything Rolling Stone magazine approached its tenth birthday, Wenner evidently decided that major changes were in order. First came the announcement earlier this year that the magazine would move its main offices from San Francisco-America's rock & roll center at the time of Rolling Stone's founding a decade ago-to-the center of media glamour and respectability, Manhattan...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: Moss Gathering | 12/15/1977 | See Source »

...Harvard PIRG chapter should first raise funds like any other student organization through mailings and appeals. Only then, when PIRG has proven itself financially responsible and morally aware should it be allowed a prominent position in the Harvard community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More PIRG | 12/13/1977 | See Source »

...F.D.A. cleared Pneumovax for market early next year. The vaccine has proven in tests to be about 80 per cent effective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vaccine | 11/23/1977 | See Source »

...Memorial Trophy regatta against a fleet that included Yale and a host of other New England powerhouses, as well as the early-season victory in the Penobscot Bay Open regatta--all Horn has to look for now is more consistency from a team that has already proven it can win the big races...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Of Wind and the River: Look Homeward, Sailor | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

...taxed them very heavily; Russell, with an estimated wealth of $100 million in mostly oil and gas, is the self-proclaimed "darling of the oil companies." The "Kingfish" became a national figure in the 1930s with his "share the wealth" ideas, which extended even to blacks; his son has proven an ardent and imposing foe of social welfare programs in Congress. The younger Long's segregationist inclinations have arisen time and again, particularly during his filibusters of civil rights legislation...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: Strange Disclosures of the Second Kind | 11/16/1977 | See Source »

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