Word: generalities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South African blacks have reacted skeptically to Botha's proposals. Says Bishop Desmond Tutu, secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches: "He is talking about applying an inhuman system more humanely. Things are changing, but there has been no fundamental change." Black leaders and even the country's white legal Establishment were shocked last week when a judge in the sleepy Natal town of Pietermaritzburg handed down a death sentence to James Mange, a militant, charged with plotting an attack on a police station. Mange was only the second person convicted of treason in South Africa...
...know of his espionage activities and, if not, why not? Sir Alec Douglas-Home, now Lord Home, who had been Tory Prime Minister when Blunt confessed, allowed that he had not been informed or even consulted when the security service decided to grant Blunt immunity from prosecution. His Attorney General had approved the deal and informed the Home Secretary, but the Prime Minister had been bypassed. That admission raised the question of how closely supervised are the intelligence agencies by high-level government ministers. Pointing up the issue of class, Labor M.P.s charged that the soft treatment accorded Blunt...
...work, with its showcase view of human character. By the '30s, few writers were ready to endorse the social attitudes that his paintings reflect-the belief in a natural ruling class, a government above politics, that was bitterly expressed in Hilaire Belloc's epigram on an English general election...
...launched General Leasing Co., later abridged to Gelco. It grew big because Grossman had a further idea: don't just lease vehicles but also manage them, keep computer records on when each one needs a lube job or a tire change, when to trade it in for the best price. Companies tripped all over themselves to buy his service; it eliminated one more management migraine. He admits: "There is nothing we do that any one of our clients cannot do. But they cannot do it as inexpensively as we because we aim all of our services at a large...
...they can be retrieved by a wire basket threaded through the endoscope and extracted from the mouth of the sedated patient. The general anesthesia required in surgery is not necessary. Patients can eat on the same day and frequently resume their normal routine after only an overnight stay in the hospital. Dr. Jerome Siegel, a gastroenterologist at New York's Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, has used this method on about 150 patients and is sold on it. Says he: "Within 48 hours, one of my patients, a 58-year-old woman, played 18 holes of golf-and shot...