Word: michaell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were ironies in the matching of man and mythic background. John Wayne entered the world on May 26, 1907, as Marion Michael Morrison, the son of an Iowa druggist who migrated to the San Fernando Valley, just east of Los Angeles. Young Michael played football for U.S.C. but retained many more intellectual interests than he liked to admit...
Forecaster Michael Evans mines miIlions from controversy
White House economic advisers tirelessly insist that the guidelines can still be made to work through the force of public opinion. Though Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal agreed that the guidelines would have to be "reviewed and updated," there are marked differ- ences within the Administration on short-term anti-inflation policy. Alfred Kahn, the Administration's chief inflation adviser, is urging the President to press a dramatic policy that would ask Congress for legislative ratification of the standards, deny federal business to companies violating the guidelines, and require 90-day prenotification on any important pay or price changes...
Falk and Arkin are thrown together when their respective children decide to marry. The newlyweds (Penny Peyser and Michael Lembeck) are upstanding graduates of Mount Holyoke and Yale; the dads are students of Groucho and Chico. Sheldon Kornpett (Arkin) is a very nervous man who delights in being "among the first dentists in New York to use the drill that spritzes water." Vince Ricardo (Falk) claims to have dreamed up the Bay of Pigs invasion. Sheldon wonders if Vince might be nuts, but Vince has proof of his most famous exploit: an autographed portrait of J.F.K. with the inscription...
...A.I.A. were the conversion of a lecture hall into gallery space and construction of an underground auditorium by Herbert S. Newman Associates at Yale's Center for American Arts, and the creation of a striking office complex within a four-story 1896 bank building in Princeton, N.J. Interestingly, Michael Graves, 44, who was responsible for the design, achieved prominence in the early 1970s as a leader of a highly theoretical group of architects specializing in abstract form. Graves has since redesigned some two dozen old buildings, and is currently converting a 1906 railway station in Millburn, N.J., into...