Word: callings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only a Communist spy but also an Austrian lackey: as deputy chief of the American mission in Vienna, he had argued against barring Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from the U.S. A Viennese newspaper chimed in that Bloch was also a skirt chaser: police in Vienna interviewed a call girl with whom he had had a "friendship" for several years. In New York City Ronald Lauder, a former U.S. Ambassador to Austria and now a Republican candidate for mayor, claimed he had so distrusted Bloch that he had him fired. Lauder backed down when the State Department pointed out that Bloch...
...carrying 199 people plowed into an olive grove near Tripoli, Libya. As was the case in Sioux City, a majority of those aboard the KAL flight survived, but as many as 80 were killed. The same day in Los Angeles a United DC-10 had another close call: though the pilot reported a hydraulic leak, he managed to bring in his plane without incident. One day later in Toronto, a Canadian International Airlines DC-10 en route from Rio de Janeiro landed safely after losing one of its ten landing wheels...
After a marathon journey of twelve years and more than 4 billion miles, the remarkable Voyager 2 space probe is finally approaching its last port of call. Having made historic flybys of Jupiter in 1979, Saturn in 1981 and Uranus in 1986, it is poised for an Aug. 24 rendezvous with Neptune, the most distant of the giant planets. (It will not encounter Pluto, whose bizarre orbit now places it closer to the sun than Neptune is.) Voyager's aging cameras and electronic sensors are somewhat impaired, and the probe is so distant that its signals take four hours...
...unscrupulous lawyers soliciting clients on the scene in violation of ethics codes. Representatives of the state bar set up an office at the health center where many of the survivors had been taken for treatment. Bar officials also placed an ad in the Sioux City Journal asking people to call if they knew of any unethical contacts by attorneys. None were reported...
...such modest goals sound like crazed radicalism? Because, a male observer is forced to admit, men and male-dominated institutions are exceedingly timid about revolution. Perhaps, however, Hochschild's prickly, irritating, distressingly reasonable book can help us to see the next step. The call used to be for soft-center males, studs who could cry. That was silly. Men don't cry. They brood, and mutter, and sulk, sometimes for hours on end, while on TV the Red Sox are slowly dying. That's fine, the author is saying, but not while there are children to be bathed, dinner...