Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tung's wife, Chiang Ch'ing wielded more power than any other woman in China and possibly in the world. The outside world knew a few facts about her-she had been a movie actress when she met Mao, and became something akin to China's cultural dictator. Yet, like all of China's top leaders, she was shrouded in mystery. Though once considered a possible successor to her husband, she is now in disgrace, apparently held captive by her opponents...
About a dozen incidents have come to Thornburgh's attention. A Los Angeles woman, fired by her employer, made a dozen copies of her last paycheck and cashed them all; an East Coast bank was taken for a total of $25,000 when someone cashed copies of a check at 13 different branches; a Washington, D.C., man drove away with a $10,000 Cadillac bought with a copy of a cashier's check...
...There were astonishing tales of survival," reported TIME Correspondent David Aikman from Bucharest. "One woman breast-fed her baby while trapped for 80 hours, only to lose it at the moment of rescue from under tons of debris. A stunt man climbed precariously into a totally demolished building to look for survivors-but not until he had told bystanders that he was absolving them from responsibility for whatever calamity might befall him in the search...
...scientists and educators who could afford fashionable apartments in the 32 tall buildings flattened in the heart of the city. At the city morgue hundreds of bodies lay in plastic sacks for long lines of friends and relatives to try to identify. "Is Caragiu there?" asked a middle-aged woman plaintively, looking for the remains of Rumania's best-known comedian, Toma Caragiu. It was believed that he had been at home reviewing a script with Film Director Alexandru Bocanet when the walls shuddered and crumbled...
...found the Budweiser advertisement you ran on page eight of your Saturday, March 12th issue blatantly sexist. It was a shock to find that ad on the pages of a newspaper presided over by a woman and distributed to Radcliffe women, among the most feminist-conscious students in the country. As a former high school newspaper editor, I understand the dilemmas business and editorial interests present. But publishing that ad was unconscionable...