Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beaded maxi coats. Diana Ross, looking supreme in a see-through blouse and a swept-wing hairdo she called "the liberated look," was upstaged by two chesty twins who bounced down the aisle in gold-sequined gowns cut to the navel. Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby provided some comic relief with a mock sparring match in the ring. The surprise ending came later, when 100 of the spectators, responding to engraved invitations to a postfight party, went to the suburban home of a local black gangster -and were met by a team of gunmen who relieved the guests of more...
There is no Mittyism about this. I could never for an instant imagine myself performing the feats of these uniformed supermen; yet thinking about Sunday's heroes does offer relief from mundane cares. When I fall asleep, however, I begin to dream middle-aged dreams. I dream that I am old, egg-bald Y.A. Tittle in high-top shoes, running a bootleg into the end zone on my weary legs. Or I dream of being Sonny Jurgensen, proudly puffing out my potbelly as if it were a chest, fading back and letting go with the most accurate...
...show immediate results. But there is a powerful incentive for top management to press for new ways of doing things. One of the best-known advocates of job enrichment, Industrial Psychologist Frederick Herzberg of Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University, suggests that strikes are often welcomed by workers as relief from their mind-numbing jobs and could be drastically reduced. As Herzberg puts it: "Managers must get more men going home to their wives saying, 'Honey, do you know what I did today?' instead of 'Honey, do you know what they did to me today...
Government is limited in what it can do. It cannot give them subsidies or generous tax relief because the sheer numbers of people involved would make the cost out of sight. At the President's order, Administration leaders are closely studying a much-discussed memo written by Assistant Secretary Rosow, who has a cornucopia of ideas. All of them fall far short of labor youth's demands but meet specific needs of their elders. The Administration, for instance, is considering legislation for the Government to regulate corporate pension plans more closely and require that all of them be vested, becoming...
After the flood of "I-was-there-during-the-campus-rumpus" memoirs, Mersey's common humanity is a welcome relief. Christopher T. Cory