Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only a month ago Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini had lavishly praised Mehdi Bazargan, his choice as the first Prime Minister of postrevolutionary Iran, for his "confidence in the holy writ of Islam" and his "past record in the national and Islamic struggle." By last week, the 78-year-old Shi'ite leader's view had changed sharply. Speaking to theological students at his headquarters in the holy city of Qum, he rapped his slightly younger (71) appointee. "You are weak, mister," he thundered. He also lambasted Bazargan's 17-member Cabinet as "weak characters" who believe that "everything...
...that will go 50 miles on a gallon. It is another thing to talk about fleet averages. That means you have got to have some cars that get a lot more than 50 miles a gallon if you are going to have the bigger alternative models people in the past have found they needed to pull a trailer or car ry a full-size family." The only way to sat isfy both the conflicting demands for in creased mileage and full-size cars is to make ever lighter models while sacrificing as little interior space as possible. To accomplish that...
...volatile mix. Blues Singer Joe Turner, a burly man with a boyish face, "sometimes ... pushes his words together, lopping off the consonants and flattening the vowels so that whole lines go past as pure melody, as pure horn playing." Ray Charles can sing anything but opera: "The sound of his pinewoods voice tearing along over violins and a choir is one of the wonders of music." Cabaret Singer Blossom Dearie, a honey-blond with a "boxed and beribboned" manner, offers a tiny sound that "without a microphone, would not reach the second floor of a doll house...
...proliferation of less ambitious studies and surveys, some of them amounting to market research, has occurred in the past few years. The University of Michigan Institute for Social Research conducted a nationwide study of income and education as determinants of happiness. The advertising firm Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn carried out a similar but broader survey to find out whether their clients' potential consumers "were happier ... than other segments of the population." Scientific studies of worker "contentment" have been going on for years, to be sure, but are not quite the same as the new wave of investigations into...
DIED. Jean Villot, 73, French Roman Catholic Cardinal and for the past ten years the Vatican's secretary of state, traditionally the second most powerful prelate in the church; of bronchial pneumonia...