Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bearded image. Machel, a one-tune medical orderly from Xai-Xai (pronounced shy-shy) in the southern province of Gaza, is now the unquestioned leader of Mozambique, and his bearded image can be seen everywhere. In 1963 Machel fled Mozambique to join rebels of the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo) in neighboring Tanzania. In 1964, he led the first major Frelimo attack against a Portuguese military post. By 1966 he was Frelimo's army chief and by 1970 he was the official leader of the movement, succeeding Eduardo Mondlane, the American-trained sociologist who had been mysteriously killed...
...high for two or three years. Production is running close to $250 billion below what it would be if factories were producing at optimum levels. Even with good growth, the economy will not climb back to its pre-recession peaks of late 1973 until late in 1976. At a tune when much of the world is crying out for the fruits of American production, the nation's machines and manpower remain grossly underused...
Died. Robert Stolz, 94, prolific Austrian-born composer; in West Berlin. Once considered the musical heir of Johann Strauss Jr., Stolz wrote some 50 operettas, 100 film scores and 2,000 songs, including Two Hearts in Three-Quarter Time, whose tune he scribbled on a menu in the early 1930s while sitting in Vienna's famed Cafe Sacher...
Ryan's Yorktown Tune. If Oh, Kay! isn't American enough for you, you can check out this "Bicentennial play" commissioned by Tufts in honor of the occasion. Don't expect any of the typical fife-drum-and-bugle-stars-and-stripes hoopla, though. This play reportedly addresses the question, "Do people make revolutions or do revolutions make people?" and the plot concerns a cowardly Boston barman who is forced to become a revolutionary because he needs the money and because Sam Adams threatens to put a bullet through his head. The script isn't flawless, but the production...
...subcommittee on dog-and cat-food standards was chaired by a pet food company executive; an aerospace company vice president headed the academy's aeronautics and space board. Such panels occasionally did include "public interest" representatives, but they had little influence. "Industry was pretty much calling the tune," says University of Minnesota Environmentalist Dean Abrahamson, who quit the academy's power-plant-site committee in disgust...