Word: slipshod
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Security varies from airline to airline and from route to route. In too many cases it appears to be slipshod, even on flights to Israel, which presumably are among those most closely checked. Raul Maldonado, 38, a member of the decimated Puerto Rican pilgrimage on Air France Flight 132 last week, insists that security was poor. Maldonado, who was unhurt in the shooting, told TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin: "No one searched me bodily and no one searched my hand baggage when I got on at Orly...
...with having shouted and clapped at the pro-war "Counter Teach-In" held by Students for a Just Peace in Sanders Theatre March 26. Those who have observed the CRR in action before know what to expect in the latest round of trials: the same shoddy evidence, vague testimony, slipshod procedures, and indifference to truth which have characterized the CRR during its short, checkered history will surface again today...
...rank after death as targets of Orton's jesting, also reach a point of diminishing returns after the first machine-gun fire of jokes. Lines such as "God is a gentleman. He prefers blonds," or Truscott's "I wasn't expecting pharaohs" to Hal's cowering outcry "Mummy!" are slipshod lapses...
...secretary who lost her life while on an outing with Senator Edward Kennedy at Chappaquiddick Island, Mass.; of stomach cancer; in Philadelphia. A onetime Vermont state pathologist, Spelman once shocked the state by claiming publicly that 90% of all murders committed in Vermont went unprosecuted because of the slipshod methods of reporting deaths. In Philadelphia, he started a poison-information center, helped establish a suicide-control center and tried to spare the feelings of bereaved relatives by installing closed-circuit television in the city morgue for the identification of bodies...
...been somewhat less compelling than the style. Most successful segments: a film essay on Americans' fixation with auto demolition derbies; savage slashes by Columnist Nicholas von Hoffman at pharmaceutical hucksterism and the futility of "law-and-order"; a muckraking shocker by Author Paul Jacobs on the allegedly slipshod safety standards of the Atomic Energy Commission; and a sketch on romance, True Confessions-style...