Word: metropolitanism
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...Metropolitan Police Assistant Com missioner John Bellow last week faced the delicate task of determining where security had failed and where improve ments could be made. Dellow's dilemma: the royal family dislikes security precautions so much and is so well regarded that measures for its safekeeping have become too lax. Ronald Reagan, by contrast, is so well guarded that his protection became a major irritant between U.S. and British security officials last month when the President stayed at Windsor Castle. Still, the Queen may need more security than she thinks. Only 13 months before her un scheduled bedside...
Soon the company was importing top craftsmen from Europe to design elegant plumbing fixtures. In 1929 several Kohler products, including a black enamel lavatory with a marble counter top, were displayed at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the mid-1960s, the company brought bold colors to the bathroom with tubs and toilets in deep shades of red, blue and avocado. Nonetheless, when Herbert Kohler became chairman in 1972, he decided that plumbing had not reached its potential. Says he: "I felt we could innovate with shapes and colors to change the whole function...
...From big metropolitan medical centers to the smallest of rural community hospitals and clinics, such horror tales of runaway medical costs are becoming all too common. As medical technology keeps improving and advancing, bringing steady torrents of new and ever more exotic and sophisticated equipment and practices to market, the already high cost of medical care has been rising faster than ever. In the process, the U.S.'s $285 billion-a-year business of curing the ill and diagnosing the diseased has become an inflationary juggernaut that is literally laying siege to the entire economy...
...Press was the tenth metropolitan editorial voice to be stilled in the past year. The collapse of the Washington Star and Philadelphia Bulletin left those cities at least temporarily with one newspaper ownership. The New York Daily News Tonight and the Minneapolis Star were folded into morning editions published by the same companies; the Des Moines Tribune is scheduled for the same fate. Competing morning and evening news staffs have been merged by owners in Dayton, Duluth, Atlanta and Fort Lauderdale. Fold-or-sell rumors persist for the Hearst-owned Boston Herald American...
...John Paul ground through the first day of his exhausting 32-hour visit-first to address Argentine clergy at the capital's Metropolitan Cathedral, later in the morning to meet with other members of the junta at the presidential Casa Rosada-some Argentines sought to add luster to their own causes through the Pope's presence. Most audaciously, ardent followers of the populist policies of the late Dictator Juan Perón wanted to gain political capital from the major papal appearance of the day. That was an afternoon Mass at the venerable basilica of Our Lady...