Word: michaell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bakke decision, some observers feel, is an appeal to treat people as individuals rather than as members of categories. Says Syracuse University Religion Professor Michael Novak: "I think that like a great aircraft carrier, the court changed direction, and only two or three degrees of that direction are apparent now. But I hope this means an increased respect for the fact that every individual has a history, and that history has some relevance." Nathan Glazer, Harvard professor of education and author of Affirmative Discrimination, believes that "what the Supreme Court called for is human. It is asking for the kind...
EXPECTING. Twiggy, 28, London's wispy, doe-eyed model turned singer, and Michael Witney, her actor husband; their first child; in November. Twiggy, who is 5 ft. 6 in. tall, weighed 91 lbs. at the height of her career, has now ballooned to 112 lbs., and is embarking on a diet to stave off pregnancy pounds. She faces childbirth philosophically: "It's all a bit scary in a way because it's the first one. But then people have them in forests and rice fields, don't they? And they all seem to manage...
MARRIED. Prince Michael of Kent, 36, handsome first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, whose diversions have included international bobsledding and fast cars; and Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz, 33, an aristocratic Austrian interior designer; he for the first time, she for the second; in Vienna. Because his bride is a Roman Catholic (her first marriage was annulled), Prince Michael was obliged under the Act of Succession of 1700 to renounce his place as 16th in line to the British throne...
...most the White House seems willing to accept is a bill with a $15 billion net cut in revenues but no reduction in the capital gains rate. At a Senate Finance Subcommittee hearing last week, Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal said that the Steiger amendment "should be called the Millionaires' Relief Act of 1978," a view shared by AFL-CIO President George Meany and other labor leaders. That did not especially please the six Senators present, half of whom can count their net worth in seven figures.- The most heated exchanges came when Republican Senator Bob Pack wood...
Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal quickly seconded the Fed chairman's appeal. By Miller's calculations, the increase could boost inflation by one-half of 1 % next year, as the higher wage costs in such businesses as restaurants, motels and supermarkets ripple through the economy...