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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eliot Wigginton, 36, began in 1966 with 140 children and $440 in donations from the residents of Rabun Gap in the north Georgia mountains. Wigginton, who grew up in Georgia and was educated at Cornell, wanted to teach young people about the glories of the area's independent mountain folk. He named the project Foxfire, after a Georgia lichen that glows in the dark, and set up a course of study, which includes photography, folklore and music. The students interview elderly people about their lives and write stories for the Foxfire magazines and books. Published by Doubleday since...
...Martin Feldstein, 40, his colleagues predict, is some day bound to reach the pinnacle of their profession: chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. A summa cum laude graduate of Harvard, Feldstein is already perhaps the most influential young economist in the nation, the leader of a group of "new conservatives" who are arguing that the Government should meddle less in the economy. Feldstein heads the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, a private organization financed by grants from foundations and corporations, highly respected in the profession for its study of economic cycles. The cure for what...
...French Riviera resort of Cannes last week, a stocky, balding Palestinian holidaymaker strolled leisurely back to his luxurious rented apartment on La Croisette after a lucky evening at the roulette tables. As the elevator doors let him out on the fourth floor, two sportily dressed young men-one described as a tall, blond European, the other as a slighter, darker man who could have been North African-pounced from the corridor. After a scuffle and a shot, the Palestinian was left dying with a .32-cal. bullet in his head...
...separate areas. Steps are being taken to end coeducation in the secondary schools. And several more prostitutes and heroin peddlers were executed. "Don't pay any attention to those who call us reactionaries," admonished Khomeini in a message assailing Western decadence. "We have the future of our young generation to care...
Construction began in the spring of 1977 and has proceeded almost on schedule, despite an unusually cold winter and the usual bureaucratic and planning snags. Specialists have been recruited from all over the Soviet Union, thousands of Young Communist League volunteers have taken up shovels to help out, and materials and manpower have been diverted from non-Olympic projects. Construction battalions from the Soviet army are working at many sites...