Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Will worker productivity plummet along with the mercury in frosty offices? Possibly, says Dr. Ralph Goldman, a U.S. Army environmental medicine expert who documents human responses under a variety of climatic conditions. Goldman suggests that manual dexterity can suffer in temperatures of less than 68°. Does this mean that wool hats and mufflers will soon be de rigueur in the typing pool? Or fingerless gloves? "I'll bring in a space heater before I'll wear those," grumbles a Manhattan secretary.* But she will try thermal underwear beneath her baggy jeans...
Many physicians encourage counseling of the partner before and after surgery and some, like Dr. Robert Wickham of Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital or Dr. Ralph Benson of the University of Wisconsin Medical School, insist on it. But others, like New York University's Dr. Jordan Brown, are "not sure the partner of my patient is of equal concern." Baylor Plastic Surgeon Frank Gerow is more blunt. Says he: "It's important that women not be superfamiliar with what's being done. This is a man's operation for a man's problem...
...story, which an attentive viewer can decipher by watching any single episode, centers on the repeated attempts by Norman (Ralph Zito), the title character, to convince his sister-in-law Annie (Nora Seton) to go away with him, for the weekend. Annie invites her brother Reg (David Prun) and his wife Sarah (Louisa Jerauld) to the house to care for their mother while she is gone...
Such congressional action reflects the public's new antiregulatory sentiment. The FTC has come to epitomize all the problems of Government regulation run amuck. This new notoriety represents a strange metamorphosis for a body that in 1969 an American Bar Association commission condemned for inactivity and Ralph Nader's Raiders ridiculed as "the little old lady on Pennsylvania Avenue." Established in 1914, the FTC for most of its history was a largely ineffective agency that rarely used its powers to curb deceptive advertising and to press antitrust cases. In 1975, however, Congress broadened the commission's mandate...
...search of a movement, truth in testing is only the first step. Weiss says he hopes tests will be seen in a more balanced perspective and that alternatives will be developed to replace multiple-choice tests if the current rebellion "takes the halo off the whole operation." To Ralph Nader, the main ill to be cured is "the destruction of the self-confidence of millions of students who incorporate into their own psyches the standards of evaluation set by the Educational Testing Service. ETS and the other major testing firms decide who has 'aptitude' and 'intelligence...