Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...continued his interest in psychiatry through subsequent jobs as an editor at Commonweal, book editor of the social science magazine Transaction (now Society), a New York Times reporter covering the behavioral sciences, and TIME'S behavior writer since 1974. During the past few years he has kept notes on the increasing, well, schizophrenia in the profession. Explains Leo: "Many psychiatrists now doubt they are engaged in a legitimate profession. Some are beginning to wonder if they have any more healing powers than a good bartender...
...residents of Brumley Gap, Va., are trying to find an Indian grave in order to "fend off inundation" by a dam [Feb. 26], I certainly wish them better luck than the Seneca Indians had when the Government decided to build Kinzua Dam in the Allegheny Mountains on the New York-Pennsylvania border. One of the great leaders of the Iroquois nation was buried there along with many Senecas, and the tribe was told to move them or they would be flooded. No wonder they call Kinzua "Lake Perfidy...
...looked more interesting than politics," insists thrice-a-week-tongue-in-cheek New York Times Columnist Russell Baker, 53. Between columns. Baker has been scribbling away at a musical, which opens on Broadway next month. Three years of effort, by the author's count, have produced a net loss of $375 for the coffee consumed by himself and "paladins of the Great White Way" while they convinced him that a succession of scripts needed "a lot of work." The end result, Home Again, with music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by Barbara Fried, is a melodic history...
...sets that were brought in to the country between six and eight years ago. The department was clearly acting under pressure. Ohio Democrat Charles Vanik, who heads a House subcommittee on trade, has called for hearings on the dumping issue. At the same time, federal grand juries in New York City, Norfolk, Va., and Los Angeles, as well as a Justice Department task force in Chicago, are hearing federal allegations that several large retailers, notably Sears, Montgomery Ward and J.C. Penney, have accepted illegal Japanese kickbacks...
...gone off some once fashionable Caribbean and Mexican resorts. The dollar is worth a dollar, almost. The natives speak English, sort of. It is a fairly easy hop for U.S. Westerners, who account for 80% of Maui's visitors (though 600 people a day flew from New York City en route to Maui on United alone last year). Though here and there a McDonald's, a Pizza Hut, a Baskin-Robbins has sprouted, it is still possible on Maui to rediscover the idyllic Hawaii of swaying palms and hips that Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain and Jack London...