Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Ford has not yet caught himself saying to his Vice President, "Short on the back and sides, please, and easy on the bear's grease." And White House Barber Milton Pitts has not yet greeted his customer with "Hiya, fella!" Both could happen though. Pitts is a dead ringer for Nelson Rockefeller, who recently paid a visit to Pitts' shop to exchange pleasantries. "He looks exactly like me but he's better looking," agreed Rocky. Milton concentrated on planning a different crown for his potential new customer. "He needs to have completely different shaping...
...Died. Milton Cross, 77, radio announcer, whose sonorous voice became synonymous with opera; of an apparent heart attack; in Manhattan. Beginning Christmas Day, 1931, Cross announced Texaco's Metropolitan Opera performances from December to April for 43 years, intoning with hushed excitement countless Saturday afternoons, "The house lights are dimming, and in a few moments the Metropolitan's great golden curtain will rise...
...slopes this winter. Can the risks of skiing be reduced? Ski-school directors and designers of ski equipment have long argued that better instruction and improved equipment could cut the injury rate considerably. Three doctors from the Boston School of Medicine question this. Drs. Joshua Gutman, Jonathan Weisbuch and Milton Wolf write in the A.M.A. Journal that despite better equipment and training, the injury rate for skiers has changed little, if at all, in twelve years. What has changed is the nature of ski injuries...
HAVING A SCHOOL of economics as a father is probably very difficult. As the son of the famous iconoclast economist Milton Friedman, David Friedman most likely faces great obstacles in establishing a distinct and separate reputation. Especially since he has chosen to write on the same subjects. But for David this will not be much of a problem. He writes with more than enough radicalism to build an independent reputation and make his father turn red (if that's possible...
...prison to quell a convict uprising. Over the years Alpert, a Swarthmore graduate and ardent feminist, concluded that the radical movement was male dominated and sexist. She also tired of life as a fugitive. "I did not want to spend my life hiding out," she told Federal District Judge Milton Pollack. Accompanied by her parents (her father is a dental-equipment manufacturer), Alpert described her life." return as "the happiest day of my life...