Word: haven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reminiscent of Charles Manson and his "family"-began five years ago in the Baja California community of Los Molinos, 169 miles down the coast from San Diego. There, Ervil's older brother, Joel, patriarch of the Church of the First Born, established a settlement in 1963 as a haven for polygamous Mormons. With Ervil as second in command, the community attracted more than 200 followers, nearly half of whom were excommunicated Mormons (the church banned polygamy...
...product we sell has not done very well. We are selling stock at precisely where it was 13 years ago." Some investment professionals are even knocking their own principal product. Says Walter Burns, of the institutional investment advisory firm of Lynch, Jones and Ryan: "There is no longer any haven for institutional investors in common stocks. We are telling our clients to invest all their funds in bonds...
Unfortunately, to quiet their alarm, the all-powerful majority will reject the discipline's predictions. Like economics, linguistics and psychology before it, sociobiology will wind up as just one more haven for professional "explainers," for those soothsayers whom we honor as scientists as long as their findings turn out to be soothing...
...night Cerf was having dinner with Sinclair Lewis when a phone call interrupted with the news that William Faulkner had suddenly appeared in town. Cerf thought the two famous authors might Like to meet, but Lewis would have none of it. "No, Bennett. This is my night," he declared. "Haven't you been a publisher long enough to understand I don't want to share it with some other author?" For pure ego, however, no one could match Ayn Rand. When Cerf tried to persuade her to cut a 3 8-page speech from Atlas Shrugged, she simply...
...meantime, Moses has several specific plans for the class, aimed at age-old problems of freshman isolation and alienation. He would like to try several one-shot projects "that haven't been done in a long time or at all," such as organizing a freshman class marathon sometime this fall followed by a bluegrass concert and a picnic. At Manhattanville, Moses was largely responsible for injecting a sense of activity and celebration into the college atmosphere, initiating an athletic program and social organizations and, while he says he left there in part in search of a more academically-oriented post...