1970s

Sonia Gandhi attacks greedy rich (Financial Times)

21 Nov 2008

Sonia Gandhi, the highly influential president of India’s ruling Congress Party, on Friday launched a vituperative attack on what she called the unchecked greed of bankers and businessmen, recalling the glory days of her mother-in-law Indira Gandhi who enforced nationalisations in the 1970s.

Making Computers Based on the Human Brain (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News)

21 Nov 2008

When Lloyd Watts was growing up in Kingston, Ont., in the 1970s he had a knack for listening to songs by Billy Joel and Elton John and plunking out the melodies on the family piano. But he wondered, wouldn't it be great to have a machine that could "listen" to songs and immediately transcribe them into musical notation? Watts never built the gizmo, but his decades-long quest to engineer such a ...

The Gospel truth, according to Matthew (Asbury Park Press)

21 Nov 2008

After a successful run in June, Our Gang Players is resurrecting "Godspell" — the 1970s musical about Jesus and his friends — for four shows beginning Thursday at Stafford Township Arts Center.