Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million credit cards, those convenient laisser-passers of an increasingly demonetized society. But what about the cash customer - is he getting an even break? In a suit filed in U.S. district court in Washington last week, the Consumers Union maintained that he is being shortchanged. Naming the American Express Co. and a member bank of the BankAmericard system, C.U. charged that credit-card companies are in effect guilty of price fixing...
There is only one way to tell: by a thorough examination of the phenomena by those who do not express an a priori belief. By those for whom probability is not a mystique but a comprehensible code. By those who have nothing to lose but their skepticism. Until such examiners are allowed to play the psychic game, it is unlikely that the paranormal will escape the ambiguous utterance against it in Leviticus: "Do not turn to mediums or wizards; do not seek them out, to be defiled by them ..." And that most wondrous and mysterious of entities, the human mind...
...easygoing Irish Bostonian who is described by friends as a "fiendishly good domino player," Casey earned a M.B.A. from Harvard and started out as a railroad executive with the Southern Pacific. Later he became a vice president of the railway Express Agency. For the past eleven years, he has guided the Times Mirror into ventures ranging from cable television to the manufacture of flight-training systems. The White House considered Casey for the $65,000-a-year chairmanship of the U.S. Railway Association, a government agency that will administer the recognized Northeast railroads. But American got him for salary, bonuses...
...college will also require that one recommendation be written by the student's English teacher. "Many secondary schools have compromised training in basic linguistic skills by offering non-essential electives," Moll said. "We need to find out if a student is able to express him or herself...
...express our support for Solzhenitsyn and the Russian people for whom he is willing to die, the United States must immediately suspend all cultural and economic contacts with the Kremlin despots. To hope that these contacts might bring about a liberalization of Soviet rule in the face of last week's events is not only naive, but fatuous. To continue them merely serves to stain the honor of the United States beyond earthly redemption. Laurence Krute '74 Jewish Defense League Stephen Rosen '74 Young Americans for Freedom