Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the heightened excitement of the Bicentennial a year ago. Americans are once again enjoying the familiar insouciant pleasures of the season. This week in a colorful 19-page special section, we indulge in a look at this summer's simple delectations: the thrills of amusement parks and roller coasters, the escape to national parks and summer camps, the haute couture of swimsuits, the sound of bluegrass music, the pleasures of summer reading and the gustatory delights of junk food and beer...
...Gray, who wrote the junk-food story, made forays last weekend to McDonald's and Burger King, but admits that he does not have a strong visceral attachment to them. Says Gray: "They're best when you're driving and you want to eat in a familiar place where you know you won't be poisoned. They're pit stops on the highway of life...
Cancer of Poverty. The fight will center around the familiar Medicaid program, which is jointly financed by the states and the Federal Government and needs the approval of both levels to work. Medicaid is the main way for welfare recipients to get safe abortions in the U.S.; it accounts for nearly a third of the 1 million or so operations performed annually. The court's ruling is already being hailed as a great victory for the forces determined to move Medicaid out of the abortion business. It removes any constitutional cloud over the decision of 15 states to deny...
Donald Carlisle, associate professor of Political Science at the Summer School, said yesterday that while he is not familiar with the specifics of the B-1, he believes it represents a tentative step toward arms reduction. Carlisle also said the decision might change in reaction to Soviet actions concerning the arms race...
...taken over here by Susan Watson, who turns out to have been a wise choice. I never saw any performance by the legendary Helen Morgan, for whom the part was tailored, but she must have had some kind of talent to have inspired such widespread adulation. I am, however, familiar with Morgan's singing, which I have always thought much overrated: her voice had a rapid, almost bleating tremolo, which I found unattractive...