Word: branding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...England family--the reserved father, the daughter with "good sense," Charlotte (Nancy New), and the daughter without "good sense," Gertrude, who stays home from church "Because the sky is so blue!"--and their European relatives who visit them. Gertrude is being tamed for a marriage to Mr. Brand (Norman Snow), a serious and pious, if not a dull man. But when the Wentworth's cousins from Europe, Eugenia (Lee Remick) and Felix (Tim Woodward) come to America in hopes of finding their cousins rich, entertaining, and ready to take them in, Felix pries a willing Gertrude from the somber arms...
...Square when hundreds of people seeking to honor the late Premier Chou En-lai were arrested and beaten by police. More moderate than the editors of some other underground journals, Liu and his colleagues believed that socialism is the appropriate system for China, but argue that Peking's brand of Marxism is not "true socialism...
Citizens will find few new faces in this season's line-up. Only councilor-elect David Sullivan and School Committee member Henrietta Attles will be brand new to their jobs when they take office in January. Politically, too, the shifts were small. Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) liberals and independent conservatives are still split four-four on the city council, with Alfred E. Vellucci--30 years a city official and an independent liberal--holding the balance of power and perhaps the keys to the mayor's office. The split means rent control will continue in Cambridge for another two years...
Sensing that rent control, recently scrapped next door in Somerville, was in trouble, and motivated by the well-financed campaigns of Sullivan and Francis Duehay '56, tenants, especially in mid-Cambridge, flocked to the polls. "David Sullivan pulled 700 brand-new votes out of the apartment buildings," School Committee member Glenn Koocher '71 said last week...
Innocent Cambodians are, as ever, caught in the crossfire. According to refugees, Vietnamese troops "liberating" a hamlet from the Khmer Rouge will customarily abolish the communal kitchens and other vestiges of Pol Pot's extremist brand of Communism and allow the citizens to elect their own leaders. The Vietnamese then move on to other villages, leaving the inhabitants defenseless against the revenge of Khmer Rouge who swoop down at night, reinstitute the communal kitchens, seize what food is available, and kill the elected leaders...