Word: martin
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Jackson headquarters are at the Marriot Marquis. In the lobby, members of the Rainbow Coalition offer T-shirts for $10 and hawk copies of Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech for three bucks...
Corporate Production Director: Martin J. Gardner
When the first wave of Africanized killer bees reaches the Texas border as early as next year, some of the restless insects may be turned into informants for the scientists who are plotting against them. The aerospace company Martin Marietta has designed a solar-powered microchip transmitter that can be glued snugly onto a bee's back, enabling entomologists to follow the swarm's movements and observe the bees' mating and foraging habits. The transmitter emits an infrared signal that can be detected up to a mile away. The company is still testing the tiny bee tracer, which it hopes...
...last, of course. In the '80s it came apart like wet Kleenex. America has no single culture, but cultures. And so it should, since diversity is better than monotony. In any case, many ethnic Americans are still exiles within the dominant, white matrix. One painter in this show, Martin Ramirez (1885-1960), epitomized the extreme fate of the Hispanic as outsider. A migrant railroad worker from Mexico, Ramirez lost his powers of speech and became a catatonic schizophrenic in Los Angeles in 1915, was committed in 1930 and spent the last three decades of his life in a California madhouse...
Corporate Production Director: Martin J. Gardner