Word: typing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shaking up his White House staff, perhaps firing top aides; the President was having a mental breakdown; the President was preparing to resign. As Washington waited, the dollar plunged on international financial markets. The New York Post summed up the spreading bewilderment by demanding, in its blackest front-page type: WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU UP TO, MR. PRESIDENT...
...Piccadilly Circus in London, hordes of people followed the astronauts' progress. "How are they doing?" total strangers asked one another. People prayed for their safety, and countless babies were named Apollo. Millions of people clung to their radios and television sets, and newspapers broke out their largest type. Though beaten in the race to the moon, even the Russians joined in the worldwide chorus of acclaim, wishing the space travelers a safe homecoming. Rhapsodized Poet Archibald MacLeish: O silver evasion in our farthest thought- "the visiting moon"... "the glimpses of the moon"... and we have touched...
Weber does not say how far an employer can go to give preference to minorities over whites. But to be safe from Weber-type challenges, an affirmative-action program would have to avoid excluding whites altogether, deal with job categories that have traditionally been segregated, and avoid firing whites to make room for blacks. It also must be "temporary." Justice Brennan noted with approval that when the percentage of black skilled workers at the Kaiser plant approximates the percentage of blacks in the local labor force, the program will...
Poor pulchritudinous Elizabeth Ray, 36, the only aspiring actress who was ever non-type-cast. Ray went into show biz after flopping as a non-typist for powerful Ohio Congressman Wayne Hays. Both Ray and Hays lost their jobs following revelations of their great and good friendship. Ray has tried since to make it in the theater. Last week she opened at Manhattan's Riverboat in a nightclub act that was, just possibly, worse than her typing...
...cocktail party. He writes a term paper on the Iliad titled "The Shoes of the Greeks," falls for a coed named Zizi Zanzibar and takes Chinese so he can know "something hardly anyone else knew, except for several hundred million Chinese people." Woody Allen would recognize the type...