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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fortunate indeed to have the treasure of early Irish art [Nov. 14] on a U.S. tour. What is unfortunate is the fact that the English invaded Ireland in 1169, and after 808 years don't seem to realize they've overextended their visit...
...October he was criticized for not warning key congressional backers of Israel that a joint U.S.-Soviet declaration on the Middle East was in the works. At about the same time he neglected to tell Representative Herman Badillo in advance that Carter planned to make a much-publicized walking tour of the South Bronx, the urban disaster area in Badillo's district. Last week House Democrats chided Moore and his White House colleagues for not putting up a solid enough front against compromise in the Senate of the Administration's energy bill...
...from Mulberry Street [in Manhattan's Little Italy] meeting with Nicky Barnes at a place in The Bronx [on Barnes' turf]. A few years back, Nicky would have had to go downtown to see the Italian." Barnes' 44th birthday party in October 1976 was a tour de force of extravagant self-confidence. As police stakeouts looked on in amazement from across the street, more than 200 members of black organized crime rolled up in their Cadillacs and Rolls-Royces to a catered affair in a private club atop a midtown skyscraper. Also in attendance were dozens...
Moreover, as TIME Correspondent Robert Parker reported after a tour of the area, an even bigger potential bonanza lies near by, in the "geopressured" zones full of hot, salty water and dissolved gas that underlie thousands of square miles along the Gulf Coast. David Lombard, a physicist for the Department of Energy, asserts: "If everything works, we will have as a goal to produce 2 trillion cu. ft. of gas a year from geopressured zones by the year 2000." That would equal 10% of the present U.S. gas consumption...
DIED. Paul Schoeffler, 70, German opera bass-baritone famous for his interpretation of Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger; after a long illness; in Amersham, England. Schoeffler sang in Vienna during and after World War II and regularly made the operatic grand tour during the 1950s. At New York's Metropolitan Opera he was popular as Scarpia in Tosca and as Don Giovanni. Despite his success, he complained that "this business of dressing up in a silly costume, putting on a wig and paint on the face and getting killed or poisoned or drunk every night" made for a less...