Word: cures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Claiming that he fell "in the service of the ship," Dailey demanded "wages, maintenance and cure" (full care until maximum recovery). As it happens, Dailey lost-but his seemingly preposterous suit was no surprise in the strange world of admiralty law. Before he got off the hook, Dailey's employer had to fight up to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and prove that the seaman had been AWOL and was a chronic alcoholic to boot...
...stretching the legal scope of seamen's employment, the Supreme Court has constantly expanded the right to "maintenance and cure." That right theoretically ends with willful misconduct, such as the contraction of venereal dis ease, but the court has held that seamen are "in the service of the ship" even when falling-down drunk ashore. In one famous case, a tipsy sailor tumbled out of a dance-hall window in Naples and broke his leg. Another dived into a dry dock a mile away from his ship in Palermo and was permanently disabled. Both casualties sued their shipowners...
...mere 15% of the country's 4,000,000 people, no longer traffic in serfs, and most Indians have their own plot of land. Yet, on the 12,000-ft. Andean plateau, where 75% of Bolivians live, the peasants still sleep on dried llama fetuses to cure what ails them, still subsist mainly on dried potatoes. The U.S. put great store in President Victor Paz Estenssoro, who made a start at bringing his country into the 20th century, but was so heavy-handed about it that he was overthrown by a military coup last November. Air Force General Rene...
...discouraging degree of sameness." Commission investigators have been busy pinpointing the power over TV programming held by what the industry calls "the three men": ABC's Tom Moore, NBC's Bob Kintner, and until last week, CBS's Jim Aubrey. The FCC's Draconian cure: divest the big three of half their prime programming time (7-11 p.m., E.S.T.), hand the task over to sponsors and independents...
...withdrawal symptoms. Lenny is driven down below the retreating snow line to scrounge a living however he can: below 5,000 ft., after all, anything goes. At just this point the novel begins a long, slick schuss into sentimentality, for what goes this time is the sure novelistic cure for male cynicism-a pretty girl. Bright, earnest and conveniently voluptuous, she is upset because her father, a U.S. diplomat, is so absolutely sweet and wonderful but a hopeless drunk. She is further upset when Pope John dies; so, naturally, she allows her new friend to take her virginity...