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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came into the world of espionage and policy as military intelligence officers, Hyland was a private and jazz trumpeter in the U.S. Army. He learned Russian in graduate school in Kansas City, MO. The CIA hired him in 1954 and put him to work studying Soviet military production. He rose to the directorship of the Soviet desk in the Office of National Estimates...
...filled every night, and top performers sell out nearly a month in advance: a recent John Denver engagement drew 82,000 telephone-reservation requests in a single week. During the fiscal year that ended June 30, Harrah's hotels averaged a high 92% occupancy rate and net profit rose 25% from 1976 to a record $14.6 million on a 13.5% increase in revenues, which totaled $161.6 million. Unlike many casinos in Las Vegas that cater primarily to heavy-spending Eastern gamblers, Harrah's has boosted its earnings-an average of 19% a year, compounded, for more than...
...morally wrong for teen-agers to have sex relations? Yes, said 63%. Those under age 25 disagreed, by a vote of 60% to 34%, but they were shouted down, as in real life, by their parents. The condemnation rose to a figure of 72% among those aged 35 to 49, and to 80% among those over...
Yale administrators claim that because of a $6 million deficit last year, the university cannot afford to pay more to its workers in benefits and wages. But that deficit, which came--surprisingly--after Yale's endowment rose nearly 10 per cent in fiscal 1976, was caused largely by temporary circumstances, such as a rise in fuel costs during last year's unusually cold winter. And although the university has fostered a sense of financial "crisis" by instituting a hiring freeze, much of that crisis was actually created by a corporate decision last month to limit the amount of endowment income...
DIED. Joseph Zerilli, 79, godfather of the Detroit Mafia; of heart disease; in Grosse Pointe, Mich. A Sicilian immigrant who started as a construction worker, Zerilli rose to underworld prominence during the Prohibition era and reportedly built a narcotics, prostitution and loan-sharking empire that annually netted $150 million during the '60s. Although he repeatedly denied that he was involved in organized crime-maintaining that he was simply the owner of the Detroit Italian Baking Co.-FBI bugging transcripts linked him to the underworld. After the 1975 imprisonment of his son, Zerilli came under scrutiny by police investigating...