Word: successes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dressed in a baggy brown tweed suit, Jarvis was barnstorming through Michigan on his first foray in support of a measure to lower taxes since the success in California of Proposition 13, which he cosponsored. His appearance was part of a drive to obtain the 266,000 signatures needed by this week to get a tax-cut referendum on Michigan's November ballot. The proposition, sponsored by Robert Tisch, the drainage commissioner of rural Shiawassee County in central Michigan, would cut property assessments in half, hold future increases to 2.5% a year, and permit the state income...
...success of the boycott this year "indicates that the students are more serious than some administrators, such as President Bok, seem to believe," Frolich said...
...rash of murders suggests that the guerrillas are now killing missionaries in an effort to create panic among Rhodesia's remaining whites, particularly in rural areas. Since whites are now leaving the country at the rate of 1,000 a month, that brutal plan may be having some success...
...secrets of Jesse Jackson's success is his skill at coining catchy phrases. Some excerpts from Jackson at his quotable best...
DIED. Bob Crane, 49, genial star of television's long-running comedy series Hogan's Heroes; of repeated blows to the head by an unknown assailant in his hotel room; in Scottsdale, Ariz., where he was appearing in a play. Crane found success first as a dance-band and symphony drummer, then as a clowning disc jockey. In 1965 he abandoned a $150,000-a-year radio post on KNX in Los Angeles to risk acting in a new CBS-TV comedy series about American prisoners of war in a German concentration camp. The show was an unexpected...