Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interracial couples. Battle found the state's obscenity law unconstitutional because it failed to meet requirements spelled out by the U.S. Supreme Court. "They told me I'd be opening a Pandora's box for children," says Battle about the ruling, "but I have to call...
...years, that was one of the music world's favorite jokes. Alas, no one will tell it any more: the Budapest String Quartet has apparently decided to call it a career. Its three oldest members-First Violinist Josef Roisman, 68, Violist Boris Kroyt, 71, and Cellist Mischa Schneider, 64-are in poor health. Although there has been no formal announcement, they have agreed not to perform in public any more. Mischa's brother Alexander, 60, the second violinist, thinks that that is probably just as well. "Most artists play past their prime," he says. "How long could...
Goffman's thesis-he declines to call it a theory-rests on a fundamental assumption: all rational human beings share, without necessarily knowing that they do, a desire for public order. Society is founded on an unspoken mutual trust. The pedestrian assumes, without thinking, that the driver has no motive for running him down. Instead of fatally beating a fellow passenger who has borrowed his newspaper, the commuter can be expected to limit his objections to words or gestures directed at recovering his property...
...pill that would enable people to eat all the luxury foods they want without damaging their arteries. As yet, no such drug is in sight. That is why heart researchers are turning toward the notion of Government-imposed diet control, which they rather euphemistically call "environmental engineering." "It is futile," says Framingham's Kannel, "to try to get the public to defer something now for future benefit." No matter how frightening the statistics, the public will go on getting 40% of its calories from fats that are almost 100% saturated. "Government," Kannel suggests, "may have to engage...
...wonder that anyone would want to buy the "Mickey Mouse airline," which is what patrons of Air West call the Western states' regional carrier. Its turboprop planes are notorious for late arrivals and departures, and the company is losing cash nose over wingtip. It ran up a deficit of $3.6 million in the first nine months of 1968. For all that, Hermit Billionaire Howard Hughes eagerly snatched up Air West on New Year...