Word: martin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...APPROACH the second national commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King Gr. 's birthday, it is imperative to understand that we pay homage to him not solely because he was assassinated, as so many Americans wrongly assume. In times scarred by the senseless bigotry of the Howard Beach incident, by a President eager to orchestrate the deracination of the legislative gains of the 1960s, and by self-serving Black conservative academicians who plead for cessation of all civil rights activity, our nation must look back in time to King's accomplishments and his vision...
...large airliners, passengers have another reason to be uneasy. After studying 30 cockpit flight-crew members, Dr. Martin Moore-Ede, a professor at the Harvard Medical School, discovered that on long high-altitude flights, the cockpit crew is sometimes asleep. The pilots, copilots and navigators he interviewed admitted that they have either nodded off on the job or had to struggle not to do so an average of 16 times a month. This usually happens sometime between 4 and 5 in the morning. In other research, Moore-Ede discovered an incident in which a transcontinental flight missed its Los Angeles...
...well as obvious greats; the collections of post-1945 American art put together by Robert Rowan, Marcia Weisman and her ex-husband Frederick Weisman; anthologies of big-ticket contemporary work bought in a few years by Douglas Cramer and Eli Broad; smaller and more concentrated collections owned by Steve Martin and Beatrice and Phil Gersh...
...second night of the new year, college football conjured up its own Super Bowl, and Joe Paterno said it was good. The National Broadcasting Company said it was great, and the bookies liked it too. Las Vegas Numerologist Bob Martin dubbed it the national "get even" bowl, one last plunge for everyone who had impulsively taken or given the points in any of the traditional Jan. 1 bowls, like the U.S.F.&G. Sugar Bowl...
...addition, they will screen a documentary, "I Have a Dream," on January 19, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, on the Loeb Mainstage. There will also be a free sit-down reading of "The Last Good Moment of Lilly Baker," a play by Russel Davis that the ART is considering for a performance on the Mainstage...