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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thailand. Tehran is making up for the cutoff of U.S. medicines by buying some 600 pharmaceutical items from Japan, ranging from aspirin to antibiotics. It is importing U.S.-manufactured oil-drilling equipment from Rumania and could obtain spare automobile parts from a General Motors Corp. assembly plant in any third country. True, the shops in Tehran may no longer be able to stock imported items like detergents, disposable diapers and tooth paste, and there are occasional shortages of bread, eggs, meat and other items. But otherwise, there is scarcely any sign in the city of the U.S. economic squeeze...
...social welfare programs. When Getty Oil last week signed a consent decree with the Department of Energy, which had accused the company of violating federal price regulations on crude oil, natural gas liquids and refined products, the $75 million settlement included a novel provision. Getty agreed to pay one third, or $25 million, into an escrow account to be administered by the DOE to "provide relief to economically disadvantaged people in meeting their energy expenses for this winter." These funds will supplement the $1.35 billion in Government grants that Congress has appropriated to help the poor pay their heating bills...
...outspoken, well-tailored $82,500-per-year superintendent of the nation's third largest school system, Chicago's Joseph Harmon was a favorite in the Gold Coast parlors of the city's business elite. In four years on the job his scrappy resistance to busing in the racially divided system, now 80% nonwhite, won him praise from whites-and steady criticism from minorities and the Federal Government. But when Hannon recently telephoned to talk about the schools with his friend Don Reuben, a well-connected local lawyer and adviser to Chicago's Mayor Jane Byrne...
MARRIED. High-voltage Vocalist and Screen Star Liza Minnelli, 33, and Sculptor Mark Gero, 27, who managed her stage show, The Act; she for the third time, he for the first; in New York City...
...past few seasons, television insiders have tended to talk mostly about two networks-front-running ABC and third-place NBC. Last week all that changed. After the 1979-80 season's first Nielsen sweeps, second-place CBS quietly rose to the top of the ratings. It was the first time since January 1976 that ABC had not won the network numbers game...