Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spreading because everyone is pushing what he considers his "rights" to the utmost limits. Standards are lowered and blurred: any behavior, however deviant, finds its instant defenders. The traditional and constraining institutions of family, church and school have lost much of their authority. Says LaMar Empey, a University of Southern California criminologist who specializes in youth: "The 1960s saw the dissipation of the traditional controls of society. There was much more freedom of activity in all spheres, and it was inevitable that there would be more crime. Also, the admission that we had a racist society gave some people...
...Coretta) and Ossie Davis (as Martin Luther King Sr.) in NBC'S two-part special on King scheduled to air Nov. 6 and 7. Although the 1965 Selma civil rights march, led by King, took place in Alabama, the cast and 300 extras were restaging it in southern Georgia last week. Earlier, to get more insight into the man whose role he was playing, Winfield had sought the advice of Martin Luther King Sr. Recalls Winfield wryly: "Daddy said to me, 'There was only one Martin.' End of conversation." · Washington's best-known bookworm...
...Ghazi al-Qusaibi, 37, Minister of Industry and Electricity, received his master's degree in international relations from the University of Southern California. A big, round-faced man, Qusaibi wears thick-lensed glasses because, as he explains, "when I was a child in Al Hasa province, I almost went blind as we had no medical facilities." He presides over the single largest industrial project in history: the construction of an $11 billion gas-gathering project that will take the natural gas flared away at Saudi wells and liquefy it for shipment abroad...
...test his babes. They romped in eight straight games down South, but moreover showed an intensity to perfect fundamentals and an attitude that was genuinely optimistic, a refreshing change from the cocky 1976 squad which had won 11 of 14 contests while in Florida. "I knew right after the Southern trip that these were the right kids," Park said...
...American Academy of Pediatrics: "Where a pediatrician is available, children are better off with a pediatrician." Still, family practitioners maintain that they can diagnose and treat 95% of all ailments they encounter -usually at lower cost. Many medical educators agree. Says Dr. Richard H Moy, dean of the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, which trains F.P.s: "If you are sneezing and go to an allergist, he may give you a couple hundred dollars' worth of allergy shots...