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Word: altering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...creative people spent six weeks and $10,000 to alter a conventional car, and by utilizing available components achieved fuel consumption of 57.2 to 80 m.p.g. Meanwhile, in another story, you describe how carmakers are throwing away valuable time and resources on developing a dashboard that talks. The idea that the industry cannot develop a more efficient car is foolish. Even the Moodymobile can accelerate faster than the mossbacks in Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 4, 1979 | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

Evans and Aaron J. Alter '79, a Harvard class marshal, said yesterday that once the fund reaches $5000 it receives an official name, which might encourage Harvard to recruit black South Africans actively...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Biko Fund Creator Urges Total Class Gift Boycott | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

...access policy. Its many practical aspects remain and we continue to support its existence and viability. If next year's class matches our contribution of $2600, the Fund will have reached the needed $5000 to establish its legitimacy. We encourage the continued support of the Biko Fund. Aaron J. Alter '79 Harvard Marshal Kathy P. Evans '79 Radcliffe Marshal

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Support Biko Fund | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

...played Antoine Doinel in all five films, exquisitely depicts french life from the early sixties to the present day. Interweaving flashbacks from his pervious films. Truffaut presents the definitive and final portrait of Antoine in Love on the Run. Charming, irresponsible and utterly romantic, Doinel, the director's alter ego, makes love, writes, philosophizes, eats and drinks all with the same gallic enthusiasm. We know at the end that Antoine will remain forever the child who said "if I tell the truth they don't believe...

Author: By Deirdre M. Donahue, | Title: Antoine Grows Up | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...Russian-born Angoff was chosen by Mencken over 61 applicants to assist him at the newborn Mercury. Angoff stayed on for 25 years, becoming, in Mencken's view, "the best managing editor in America." Angoff later published eleven novels about Jewish-American life, as recounted by a fictional alter ego named David Polonsky. In one of them Angoff savages a Mencken-esque "literary dictator of America," portraying him as an intellectual fraud and a loudmouthed vulgarian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 14, 1979 | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

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