Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some states, police routinely set up "sobriety checkpoints," stopping cars to check for drunk drivers. Maryland has a program encouraging CB operators to call in reports on drunk drivers. Since July 1982, more than 20,000 such reports have yielded almost ( 3,000 drunk-driving arrests. Says Kent Milton of the California highway patrol: "The problem is still enormous. It's a gigantic ocean with a lot of fish and very few fishermen...
...DIED. Milton Eisenhower, 85, educator, diplomat and valued adviser to six Pres- idents, including his brother Dwight; in Baltimore. The youngest of seven brothers, Milton worked for the Agriculture Department through the Depression years; during World War II he was a top Roosevelt troubleshooter for refugee and relief problems in North Africa, before leaving Government in 1943. He then held three college presidencies: at his alma mater, Kansas State, until 1950; at Pennsylvania State (1950-56); and at Johns Hopkins (1956-67 and 1971-72). The genial, judicious administrator also held several part-time Government posts, among them Special Ambassador...
Like eighteenth century English history, the literature of the century has also been the victim of inattention. Pope and Johnson are undeniable presences, but others are sometimes lost in between the glitter of the Elizabethans and Milton and the later Romantics and Victorians. Yet there were many intelligent literary minds at this time, and they produced writing that is well worth our attention...
...nearly 70 years, this Quincy Street location was the place where many of Harvard's varsity athletes would spend large portions of their waking hours. Milton businessman William Cloney '33 remembers of his days at the Varsity Club that "it was almost like one of the private clubs. People lived there and we all had our training meals there. It was very much of a gathering place for us. It gave us a central place to go that was near classes...
...alive and well in this country," says Barbara Schlei, a Los Angeles attorney who represents management in employment cases. Nonetheless, the climate that nurtured affirmative action has begun to cool perceptibly. "Most companies in the private sector are providing no more than lip service to affirmative action," says Milton Vickers, director of minority business development for Dade County, Fla. "There has been little monitoring for the past four or five years, and you can tell...