Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Picture Researcher Rose Keyser visited the workshop where the Muppets are "born" and came away a true believer, like the rest of her colleagues. Says she: "Kids pick up the nuances in the Muppets. They enjoy the Muppets because everything else is a rerun. This is fresh, with universal appeal." And then she had a happy thought for the holidays: "I only wish that I could have all the Muppets to my house for Christmas dinner." As you'll see in this week's six-page story, that would guarantee a very merry Christmas indeed...
When the post office in Troy, Mich., summoned Michael Achorn to pick up a 2-ft.-long 40-lb. package, his wife Margaret cheerfully went to accept it, but as she drove it back to her office in Detroit, she began to worry. The box was from Montgomery Ward, but the sender, Edward Achorn, was unknown to Margaret and her husband despite the identical last name. What if the thing was a bomb? She telephoned postal authorities...
...idea that deserves more attention than it is getting is Califano's hospital cost containment bill, which would curb Medicare expenditures by prohibiting hospitals from raising costs by more than 9% a year. Perhaps an even better approach is Economist Penner's suggestion to have the program's recipients pick up a portion of their hospital and doctors' fees. This would not only cut expenditures but also discourage recipients from rushing to the doctor for every sneeze and sniffle. The whole concept of linking federal pensions to the rise in inflation should also be reexamined. Another worthy idea for curtailing...
...difference between a critic and a reviewer is that a critic can pick his fights. A reviewer must be able to take on anyone in the bar. Wilfrid Sheed is a reviewer, and in his weight class, one of the best in America. He has the good taste to know that glibness is slightly shabby. But in this new volume of analysis and in vective, what he writes about E.B. White's style ("White's notes to the milkman achieve effects that the others sat up all night for") could be said by others about Sheed...
...Killeen, make industrial development a national commitment, a cause that will attract the society's brightest minds. Every country has its high-spirited elite. In some it is the marines, in others the entrepreneurs or professors or civil servants. In Ireland it is the IDA, which gets its pick of the university graduates. After a few years they can parachute into richer jobs in business, but most stay because it is a calling...