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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speculate on the future? At this moment in media history, the issue of food had clearly lost the cataclysmic character it had only four years ago. Obviously, today, if we read in our morning Crimson that "Political Maneuvers Keep Food From Starving Millions" we would either wonder what happened in "the world" since we went to bed, or else turn the page as bored "informed" readers who had already read enough about the not-so-current issue. My prediction is that when there is another coincidence of visible large scale famine in less developed societies and sudden food supply threats...
There were wildly differing figures being bandied about on just how fast profits have risen, in part because the Commerce Department study can be read in different ways. Annual pretax profits for the last quarter of 1978, when adjusted for the impact of inflation on depreciation and inventories, came to $177 billion. That was a compounded rise of 44% on an annual basis over the third quarter and 19.4% over the fourth quarter of 1977. Pretax profits, without inflation adjustments, rose 26.4% compared with a year earlier...
Attention, truthseekers. Now, in only minutes a day, you can dip into Einstein, Freud, Marx and other intellectual giants without all that painful reading. The secret: E-Z Read comic books that make you laugh while you learn...
...mementos. Several private farewells ended in tears. Ozawa led his troops onto the 747. The final glimpse of the Americans must have made the Peking players smile. Pan Am printed the name CHINA CLIPPER on the sides in Chinese characters but, language misunderstandings being what they are, the sign read CHINA SCISSORS...
Successive Supreme Court decisions have left the issue of pornography hopelessly muddled, but it is difficult to imagine a community whose standards would be offended by Nin's tales. Read in the supposedly liberated '70s, these pictures from a stricter age take on a quaint charm. They are reminders that there was a time of garters and romantic assignations, an age when sex delighted not because it was healthy but because it was naughty...