Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recall the severe shortages of the war, the "oil shokku" has also instilled an edginess bordering on hysteria. A casual remark by one shopper to another in Yokkaichi to the effect that oil and electricity were needed in the sugar-refining industry touched off a sugar-buying panic that spread across the whole country last week. Housewives are still trying to lay in supplies of toilet paper after a rumor spread about a forthcoming dearth of that staple. A woman was trampled to death in a toilet-paper stampede in Osaka...
...Communist economics. A stock figure in Soviet folklore is the Georgian with a suitcase of scarce goods in one hand and a bribe ready in the other. But the scale of Georgian wheeling and dealing grew intolerable to party officials in the Kremlin, mainly because it began to spread, Mafia-style, beyond illegal business deals into politics. "Noxious influences led to corruption, moral and political," admitted a report of the Georgian Communist Party central committee two weeks ago. "Party and economic leaders were led on a leash by dark dealers and became their obedient servants...
Since then, all of the university's 13 colleges have been virtually closed down by boycotting students. Last week the main campus of the university was deserted, and the boycott had spread to other leading schools. At two women's universities, Ewha and Sukmyung, students wearing black ribbons to symbolize the death of democracy voted for a classroom boycott to last until all arrested students were freed and campus surveillance stopped. A thousand students of Yonsei University also walked out, shouting "Don't trample on the conscience of the nation...
...rumors of the incident spread Cooney and Eaton were persuaded by colleagues the next day to write up a supplemental account. They prefaced it with the disclaimer that they still thought the event "insignificant." But recalling Eaton's demonstration, Zimmerman filed a story to the Journal for the issue of Monday, Nov. 19, saying that Nixon had "soundly slapped" the man's face. In a story for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, James Deakin quoted from the pool account but added a detail that he had personally learned from Cooney and Eaton: "Reporters heard...
...uncoverage in Hugh Hefner's Playboy and Out, archrivals of Publisher Bob Guccione's Penthouse. She was featured as one of Playboy's "Girls of Munich" in August 1972, an exposure that won her a spot on Oui's November 1972 cover and a centerfold spread inside ("Marlene: The Blonde Angel"). Which is again odd, because Guccione refuses to photograph models for Penthouse who have appeared nude elsewhere. He also insists that his models give their real names for publication. Does he feel he was snookered into running pictures of a Playboy and Out veteran...