Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Except that this time the victim survived. There would be no lying in state, no funeral train, no mournful services for the nation to attend by television. Like Tom Sawyer at his own funeral, Alabama's George Corley Wallace could savor both obsequies and survival. The morning after the shooting last week in a Maryland shopping center, Wallace, half-paralyzed, could lie in his hospital bed and feistily ask an aide: "Whatja got me scheduled for today?" The next day he would read the news of his primary triumphs in Maryland and Michigan...
Those express lanes should be extremely useful, especially along heavily traveled short-haul routes -between New York and Washington, say, where a combination of delays on the ground and in the air often slows jet travel to a train's pace. In addition, since the plane will be constantly guided by its own instruments, R-Nav will relieve already overburdened airtraffic controllers who are now kept busy constantly giving pilots new navigation directions. Equally important, R-Nav will permit planes to make bad-weather landings at airports that do not have approach radar or instrument landing systems; it will...
William Ball, the Roman Catholic attorney who argued the case for the Amish, pointed out to the court that the children's education does not cease when they leave school: their families continue to train them in an "education for life," emphasizing the "classical wisdom" of producing moral men. The state had contended that Amish children who left school before the statutory age of 16 could become burdens to the community. Testimony from previous appeals showed otherwise. No Amish teen-ager in New Glarus had ever been arrested for any crime; no Amish at all had an illegitimate birth...
Gilded Bird. Deadlines are a problem because of the intricate truck-train-plane system that hustles copies around the world. Distribution accounts for an astonishing 25% of the Trib's total production costs. The per-copy price is high, ranging from 28? in Paris to 75? in Tokyo, because most papers must be shipped out by air freight or chartered plane. Advertising rates are astronomical; it costs as much to place an ad in the Trib as in the Washington Post, which has more than four times the circulation. Yet there is no shortage of advertisers or readers. Nowadays...
Consider, for example, the case of helicopter pilot Thompson, who landed his craft in the midst of the slaughter by the Americal and who had his machine gunner train his weapon on Lietenant Calley. Calley was made to abstain from shooting 10 women and children whom Thompson whisked away to safety in his helicopter. Even though he had initially filed a report with superiors which condemned the killings, Thompson submitted another statement that the rescued civilians were hiding in a bunker "located between friendly and hostile forces engaged in a heavy fire fight." Thompson won the Distinguished Flying Cross, even...