Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that one of the few pictures of him known to have existed has been stolen from the files of an Arab government intelligence agency.) Born in Safad, near Lake Tiberias, Haddad studied pediatric medicine at the American University of Beirut and later joined a fellow student, George Habash, to form the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Haddad split completely with Habash last year over the skyjacking issue...
...reactors. At the moment there is no technology for disposing of this deadly garbage. But the stockpiles of nuclear waste smoldering away in upstate New York are only part of the problem. In addition, each of the nation's 65 nuclear generating stations also produces waste in the form of spent uranium fuel rods, which are stored in dumping areas next to the plant. These storage areas have now begun to fill up, and the power stations have discovered that it is becoming difficult to find additional storage areas-a problem that could soon slow further development of nuclear...
Though it fought hard, labor did not get everything it wanted. For example, Congress refused to go along with the unions' proposal that the minimum wage be tied to raises in the average manufacturing wage rate, in effect a form of indexing for inflation. Moreover, 650,000 workers now covered by the law will be cut out as a result of an increase in the number of small businesses exempt from the law. At present, a store does not have to pay its workers the minimum wage if it has annual sales of less than...
Pinball's rebirth is especially visible in suburban shopping centers. The bells ring again on college campuses, in airports, clubs and hotels. Even in Las Vegas, where any form of competition to the lucrative slots was discouraged, at least ten major hotels now have space reserved for pin play. A Midwestern firm has installed pins to keep its salesmen on a competitive kick at lunchtime. Celebrated pinball addicts-who do not call themselves pinheads-include Andrea McArdle, star of Annie; Bill Cosby, Ann-Margret, Mike Nichols, Sammy Davis Jr., Elliott Gould and, of course, Elton John, whose role...
...from R.D. Laing to Ken Kesey, Shaffer wonders whether madness may be a greater virtue than sanity in a sterile modern world. In Equus, madness is personified by Alan Strang (Peter Firth), a pretty, blond youth whose sexual desire for horses drives him to blind them; sanity takes the form of Dysart (Richard Burton), a repressed psychiatrist charged with curing Alan of his antisocial passion. In this confrontation between a virile equussexual and an impotent prune, can there be any doubt as to who will emerge the moral victor...