Word: leone
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What is the greatest threat to the survival of young Americans? The war in Viet Nam? Drugs? VD? Malnutrition? The correct answer, says Psychologist Leon Goldstein of the National Transportation Safety Board, is riding in an automobile. A Safety Board study reveals that youths are especially likely to have fatal car accidents between the ages of 16 and 19 and while driving at night, when driving conditions are most hazardous. Goldstein said he also was "astonished" to discover that "measurable alcohol" had been a contributing factor in up to 60% of auto deaths involving youths between 16 and 24. That...
Many of the judges at Atlanta went a step further. They argued in some cases a black defendant needs the sensitivity of a black judge to get a fair trial. "If I get a probation report that a fellow has been in a gang," said U.S. District Judge A. Leon Higginbotham of Philadelphia, "I may know something that the white judge doesn't: that almost everybody in that neighborhood has to be in a gang to get to school safely." The black jurists feel that they must educate their white counterparts in such matters...
...reflective, robust 62, Losey lives comfortably in London's Chelsea with his fourth wife. He is planning to film a biography of Leon Trotsky, and spent some time recently in Mexico City with Artist David Siqueiros, who as a Stalinist had been involved in an attempt on Trotsky's life. "How are you going to make a true film?" Siqueiros asked him. "If it was true, how would any film company let you make...
...first quarter; second-quarter gains are expected to be lower but still healthy. Even so, many economists and some of President Nixon's advisers believe that productivity should be rising faster during an economic recovery period. "The recent-year figures are only partly cyclical," says Leon Greenberg, staff director of a presidential commission appointed to study the question. "If the low average is permanent, then we have a serious problem...
...Baptist preacher's daughter raised in Nashville, Tenn. She began singing as a pre-schooler in Daddy's choir, later polished her technique on four-part harmony in a Memphis jingle factory, learned country-rock as a back-up singer with Delaney & Bonnie. Such rock celebrities as Leon Russell, Stephen Stills and Ry Cooder were happy to play back-up on her new (and first) A & M album -perhaps because of the sensational way she can bend a slow romantic ballad to a voice of pure honey and magnolia...