Word: homelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first year instead of the customary 15 or 17, and payment for a second season of 26 shows "whether it bombs or not." For that unprecedented, sweet contract, Robbins gave ABC only a nine-page "treatment," conferred a few times with Universal, and then took off for his Riviera home...
None of these methods can "cure" autism, the researchers warn. The best that therapy can do now is abate the worst symptoms, allowing children to remain at home with their parents and attend special schools that serve the braindamaged, the retarded, and children with other mental conditions that are more amenable to treatment than autism. The parents of autistics, who make up most of the N.S.A.C.'s 700 members, are lobbying to force all states to provide this kind of care through the public schools. So widespread is the feeling that children with severe mental illness can never...
...Martin Luther King Jr. and himself an active civil rights leader; of accidental drowning in his swimming pool; in Atlanta. For years, "A.D.," as he was called, worked in his brother's shadow as an organizer and detail man. In 1963, after the Ku Klux Klan bombed his home, he led movements for racial integration in Birmingham and open housing in Louisville. In 1968, he assumed his slain brother's co-pastorate at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta...
...Singapore, probably the best shopping center for Peking products, worthwhile buys range from lower-quality jade rings to ground deer horns, which are reputed to be an aphrodisiac. For his $100, a U.S. traveler can bring home a six-color jade bracelet at $30, a 17-piece embroidered linen place-mat setting at $25, a 2-ft. by 4-ft. Tientsin carpet at $16, a man's pure silk dressing gown at $10.50, a porcelain coffee set at $6, two pairs of children's brocade pajamas at $4, a cloisonne-ware ashtray at $2.50 and a hand-painted...
...growth and new power, however, have brought Japan's economy to a difficult stage of decision. As TIME'S Tokyo Bureau Chief Ed Reingold reports, more and more Japanese leaders realize that their economy has to make the jarring transition from super-precocious adolescence to maturity. At home, Japanese consumers complain that they have been left behind in the scramble for export markets, and they are clamoring for more of the rewards of industrial expansion. Abroad, many of Japan's best trading partners are becoming increasingly impatient with the way that its businessmen flood the world with...