Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Watergater John Dean's Blind Ambition. Event-loving NBC plans almost as many of these high-budget miniseries as its network rivals combined. Among them: 79 Park Avenue by Harold Robbins, Arthur Hailey's Wheels, James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan, plus a biography of Martin Luther King...
...judge panel-desegregated public facilities, voided attempts to evade such orders through "private" schools, abolished the poll tax, ordered legislative reapportionment based on population, mandated the inclusion of women on jury rolls, expanded a suspect's right to counsel and established a "right to treatment" for mental patients. Martin Luther King Jr.-who was, ironically, being wiretapped and harassed by the FBI -once said of Judge Johnson: "That is the man who gives true meaning to the word justice...
Congress has been considering a proposal to reduce the minimum wage for all teen-agers to 75% of the adult minimum, but that might just inspire employers to hire well-schooled middle-class youth at the expense of older workers. A better compromise, suggested by Harvard Economist Martin Feldstein, would be for the Government to subsidize minimum-wage payments to the youthful unemployed. Directed specifically to the underclass, the program would allow businessmen to pay a fraction of the cost for jobs that they might otherwise refuse to fill. Another wise Government investment would be to shift some federal funds...
Those former stockholders who can afford it are turning to some esoteric outlets that are not conventionally thought of as investments: gems, rare stamps and coins, furniture, even whisky bottles. Max Martin, an insurance salesman in San Rafael, Calif, got out of the market in 1973 and into diamonds. Says Keith Harmer, vice president of H.R. Harmer Inc., an international stamp auction house: "Starting about five years ago, people began spending big money on stamps $20,000 to $25,000. They'd sell their stocks, but keep their bonds." One handicap to both investments: retailers can place such...
Cunningham's story is unusual, but it is not unique. Dr. Martin Nemiroff, 36, of the University of Michigan Medical Center, has documented about a dozen similar cases, in which apparently drowned victims recovered from cold waters have been successfully revived. His amazing findings not only offer new hope to those who may share Cunningham's rare experience, but they also impose new responsibilities on the rescuers...