Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Doctors were proud when they devised ways of using magnets to extract iron and steel objects from patients-usually nails and safety pins from children's gullets or stomachs. Now they are carrying the idea much farther by inserting magnets to get at hitherto inaccessible parts of the human body...
...nation. Last week the organization was more than a little embarrassed at having to defend itself against charges pressed by its own chief lawyer. The N.A.A.C.P. board of directors, said General Counsel Robert Carter, acted in a manner that was "arbitrary, demeaning and intolerable" when it fired Lewis Steel, 31, one of his ablest staff attorneys...
...Steel stirred up the trouble by writing an article entitled Nine Men in Black Who Think White, a blunt attack on the U.S. Supreme Court that appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. These days, the court is criticized most often as excessively libertarian; Steel took an opposite tack. He charged the court with maintaining the status quo and striking down only "overtly obnoxious" discrimination...
...singing World War I songs as he passed on the street. Somebody brought out a pint of mocha almond from Brigham's. "The new kids haven't had the three years training on the street," Avery said. He had fairly long, neat blond hair, a twirled mustache, and steel-rimmed glasses. He says he rarely uses drugs himself, "but I've made $1000 in the last four days...
More than Equal. Montedison was formed in early 1966 by a merger between Montecatini, a chemical-minerals complex, and the Edison Group,* a private power company that wisely had begun branching into chemicals, steel and other goods before Italy nationalized power in 1962. Soon after the merger, I.R.I. and ENI began secretly buying Montedison stock. By last week they had accumulated at least 15% of the stock, making the government the firm's largest single shareholder. The state-run corporations set UD a new shareholders' syndicate, in which ENI-I.R.I. will have an equal voice with...