Word: callings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intellectual leader of the young economists is Harvard's Feldstein, a soft-spoken family man from The Bronx, whose looks and middle-class background and mannerisms call to mind a benign dentist. While most of his peers remain academically cloistered, concentrating on the higher mathematics and econometric concepts of modern research, Feldstein is at home in both academe and Government. He is equally comfortable pondering a regression equation for a computer program or testifying to a congressional committee, which he often does. Both political parties eagerly seek his counsel. He was an adviser to Jimmy Carter's '76 campaign, turned...
Groll claims that Bo and Peep decided to have him come out of hiding for a while and tell his story. Consequently he regards his workaday life as temporary. "If I felt they were calling," he says flatly, "I would go back. They're still putting out vibrations and sending me a lot of positive energy." If the call does not come earlier, he expects to meet up with his companions when that rescue spaceship arrives and flies them away to the eternal garden...
...come and listen to a talk about "their rights." The DC-10 crash prompted a San Francisco law firm to place an ad in the Los Angeles Times headlined, in mortuary gothic letters, TO THOSE WHO NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AN AVIATION DISASTER. The ad invited readers to call the firm collect for further counsel. (Twelve readers responded; so far none have signed up.) Is the ad ethical? Says California State Bar President David Levy: "The line between advertising and solicitation is pretty fine. They're pretty clever...
...which has so far cost its insurers some $68 million. But because of inflation and because the passengers were Americans with higher earning potential, the Chicago crash could cost as much as $200 million in claims, which may take several years to settle. Says one Los Angeles attorney: "I call it the megabucks of Chicago...
...consultants. Accepting "clients" who may be ill or just troubled, they play a role that sometimes seems to be a cross between Marcus Welby and Ann Landers. Insisting that "medicine is concerned with disease, nursing with health," they preach the gospel of preventive medicine-or "health promotion," as they call it. Says M. Lucille Kinlein, who runs a thriving practice in Hyattsville, Md.: "We give people an opportunity to think in a different concept, namely to think wellness...