Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Martin. At the Welles, Friday and Saturday at midnight...
While PSA 182 was on the ground in Los Angeles, Martin Kazy Jr., 32, a flight instructor with 5,000 hours of experience, got into a yellow-striped Cessna 172 owned by Gibbs Flite Center at Montgomery Field, eleven miles northeast of Lindbergh Field. Kazy, who had moved to California last year from Youngstown, Ohio, had just obtained a new job flying charter aircraft throughout the West and had asked his fiancéee, Jennifer Lefler, 25, also a flyer, to travel with him as copilot. One of his last scheduled assignments as an instructor was last week...
...because exchange rates could be changed only abruptly, sharply and in a crisis atmosphere. Yet now with floating rates, the world endures a permanent crisis and fundamental economic instability, as currencies gyrate madly in response to today's headline or rumor. Says former Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin: "The floating-rate system is not serving the world well, buffeted as it is by structural imbalance, inflation, widespread lack of confidence and, as a result, excessive fluctuations in exchange rates...
...wounding another in the thigh. The wounded cop managed to shoot two of the attackers, who were later identified as Michael Knoll, 27, and Angelika Speitel, 26, both members of the terrorist Red Army Faction. Speitel is wanted in connection with the kidnap and murder of Industrialist Harms-Martin Schleyer and the deaths of Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and Banker Jürgen Ponto...
...fielding. Still, the Kansas City defense was strongest where it was the most important: on the pitching mound. The Royals have a trio of aces on their staff: Righthander Dennis Leonard (21-17), Lefthander Paul Splittorff (19-13), and then there is Larry Gura; the southpaw whom Manager Billy Martin dismissed from the Yankees in 1976 as a "loser." Joining the Royals, Gura ate a lot, took up weight training and boosted his heft from 170 to 188 Ibs. Nowadays, with a record of 16-4, he does not fade in the late innings. "I'll be ready...