Word: birching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republican Steve Symms: "His ambassadorship seems more favorable to the Soviet Union than to the United States." In Chicago, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said that Young "should learn discipline or should not continue in his post." Lawrence P. McDonald, a Georgia Democrat (and member of the John Birch Society) introduced a motion in the House of Representatives to impeach Young; it failed...
...Dutch pavilion, or, at the French, Roy Adzak's archaeological pastiche of fruit and vegetables embedded in plaster. In the Finnish pavilion, a sculptor named Olavi Lanu set forth a whole environment called Life in the Finnish Forest-blurred human figures made of earth, live moss, birch bark and other organic material. Granted that these quaint vegetative trolls would have looked better if met by accident in the woods, rather than spotlit in a gallery, they were still banal as sculpture -but children who visit the Biennale will love them...
...ignored a federal judge's order to allow the inspector in, the Government went back to court, and a three-judge federal panel agreed with the contractor. Then the Government appealed, and last week the Supreme Court, in a 5-to-3 decision, ruled that Barlow, a John Birch Society Democrat, was legally right: employers can bar OSHA inspectors who do not have search warrants...
MARRIED. Michelle Phillips, 33, lissome blonde Hollywood actress (Valentino) who was a singer with the 1960s' Mamas and Papas folk-rock group; and Robert Stephen Birch, 30, a broadcasting executive; she for the third time, he for the first; in Beverly Hills...
...Finnair ad, seeking to convince Americans that "great vacations start with flying Finnish," featured a fanciful headline about the invention of the sauna by a Finn who discovered that his wife "loved" being locked in a smokehouse and beaten with birch leaves. Lawyer Karen DeCrow, former president of the National Organization for Women, conceded in a letter to Finnair North American General Manager Leif Lundstrom that the airline had intended only to be funny-but added that wife beating was no laughing matter, either in Finland or the U.S. If Finnair did not drop the ad, said DeCrow, "we women...