Word: marc
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...Reported by Patrick E. Cole/Los Angeles, Marc Hequet/St. Paul, Aixa M. Pascual/New York and Bruce van Voorst/Washington
...meantime, what was not yet known as the media had enthusiastically taken up the science-fiction approach to the future. In 1910 an illustrator named Jean Marc Cote began a series of advertising cards depicting life in the year 2000: underwater croquet tournaments, men being shaved by robots, battery-powered roller skates. Later, Hugo Gernsback, who started out as a manufacturer of automotive batteries, launched the magazine Amazing Stories ("Extravagant Fiction Today--Cold Fact Tomorrow"). It was endlessly imitated. A typical series in Famous Fantastic Mysteries was titled Crimes of the Year 2000. The crimes were not especially novel...
Junior has been busy running the executive catapult. First out: executive vice president Howard Weitzman, helped by his close friend president Ron Meyer. On the studio level, production president Marc Platt was dismissed (on his birthday), and the marketing team of Buffy Shutt and Kathy Jones resigned under pressure...
Early drafts of the act were specifically pro-Christian. Ultimately, however, its argument was stated in pure civil-libertarian terms: prayers that would be coercive if required of all students during class are protected free speech if they are just one more after-school activity. Nevertheless, recalls Marc Stern, a staff lawyer with the American Jewish Congress, "there was great fear that this would serve as the base for very intrusive and aggressive proselytizing." Accordingly, Stern's group and other organizations challenged the law--only to see it sustained, 8 to 1, by the Supreme Court in 1990. Bill Clinton...
NORTH YARD Mark Stad 3-3851 stad SAC Erik T. Smith 3-3539 etsmith SAC John Burton 3-3694 jaburton FIN Council Treasurer Tim Daskivich 3-3694 daskivic CLC Marc Romanoff 3-3694 romanoff...