Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into the vernacular from military usage. There is a certain aptness in using the term to describe the New York City writing stint that TIME Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager is undertaking as part of a home leave. Though still hard at work, Prager is taking a well-deserved break from 14 relentless months of observing first-hand the Middle East's most savage internecine conflict. Says Prager: "Beirut was always the place where one took a plane to cover a story somewhere else. The change is . tragic, to put it mildly." He wrote the main Middle East story...
...item on abortion, for instance, said only that there should be no constitutional amendment to overrule the Supreme Court's moderately permissive decision. That goes along with Carter's previous stand. During the primary campaign, candidates to the left of Carter had urged legislation now to break up large oil companies (see BUSINESS). Carter had stopped short of that. The platform noted the lack of a "free, competitive market for crude oil in the U.S." It supported new Government restrictions "when competition inadequate to insure free markets and maximum benefit to American consumers exists...
Whoever plotted it. the senseless killing seemed certain to boomerang. Arizona Attorney General Bruce Babbitt quickly took charge of the investigation, brushing aside the bumbling Maricopa County prosecutor, Moise Berger. Both houses of the state legislature swiftly approved legislation to break up the Arizona dog racing monopoly, controlled in part by Emprise. A special prosecution fund providing $100,000 to investigate Bolles' murder is assured of speedy approval by the legislature. The Arizona Republic vowed to intensify its crusade against "the slimy hand of the gangster and the pitiless atrocities of the terrorist...
...armed police and auxiliary recruits were on guard in Soweto. Vandalism, looting and random fires caused at least $2.5 million worth of damage. Gradually, the unrest spread to Kagiso, Tembisa and other neighboring townships, forcing police to call for reinforcements from Pretoria. As fears rose that the rioters might break out of police cordons and attack white suburbs, Minister of Police James Kruger invoked a section of the country's Riotous Assemblies Act that forbids all outdoor gatherings without official permission. By Week's end blacks−angered by the mindless vandalism−turned on the rioters. Residents...
...perennially urged to break out, to write something more "serious" than a mere detective novel. He always refused. This was Chandler's final paradox, his simultaneous tragedy and guarantee of stature. Despite McShane's claims for his subject as "one of the most important writers of his time," the author saw himself with less extravagance and literary pomp. "The best mystery-story writers," he once wrote, "are those whose perceptiveness does not outrange their material." As always, Raymond Chandler was master of the exit line...