Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrivals for two to three weeks in a small hospital; about half the applicants are rejected. Those who remain -some 50 a year-are the ones found suitable to Geel's way of life, mostly nonviolent psychotics and people with subnormal intelligence. The carefully screened families who take them in receive a practical compensation: extra hands for simple work, plus stipends of 80? to $2 per day. "The first time they take a patient they are doing it for economic reasons," says Matheussen, "but after five or six years, it becomes an act of humanity...
...inevitably a political creature-and any moves to tighten money are political poison. European central bankers are particularly happy that Martin has so much power. They figure that politicians have a clearly inflationary bias and that the U.S. needs a man with Martin's independence and integrity to take the necessary, if politically unpopular, steps required to help stabilize demand and prices. When rumors went around in 1967 that Martin might not be reappointed as chairman, some European central bankers observed that his departure would so shake foreign confidence in Washington's money policy that the U.S. would...
...eyes of the British and the French, the Concorde supersonic jet that made its maiden flight last week is far more than the newest transport to take to the air. The plane is a gamble for enormous stakes; Paris and London together have invested more than $1.5 billion in the plane, nearly triple the original estimate, and have budgeted $600 million more for initial production. On the Concorde rides much of the future of the aeronautical industries of both France and Britain, as well as the possibility of further industrial partnerships between the two countries. Sales of the plane could...
...atures as if it were a Vogue layout, and edited it elliptically. She even tinted the fantasy scenes to avoid confusion: red for those influenced by the mad engineer at his game board, a benign pink for the writer-hero. The trouble is that she seems to take the hero's fantasy as seriously as he does. As in her other films (Cleo from 5 to 7, Le Bonheur), she mistakes pulp for pith and winds up only with pretension...
...released his characters, and so they release us. Neither he nor they are forced through tortuous mind-plucking, cerebral contortions. We should only be so lucky. Eat a pizza after seeing Shame, or walk around, or get mugged, go to the airport and watch planes take off. But don't come right home to Cambridge. You'll only be jumping back into the same mindswamp Ingmar Bergman just helped you escape...