Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...judges' objections. Such a bill might easily pass next time, since it initially failed by a scant one-third of a vote to get the required two-thirds majority in the Rajya Sabha, Parliament's upper house. There are even rumors that she may dissolve Parliament and call for new elections, using the ruling on the princes as a rallying point to gain a larger majority. In a land where the average annual income is only $70, the princely privileges might well prove to be a popular and politically effective issue...
...from above. In any case, they were spotted, questioned and turned over to Bahamian authorities by agents of Intertel, a security firm employed by the Hughes Tool Co. "Get off the island," said the Bahamians to the Private Ears, and off they went, without so much as a coded call for help...
That was the hour when a General Motors tool repairman named Francis Cronk accepted a collect call from the Traverse City state hospital for mental patients. His mentally retarded son, John David Cronk, 26, had died. The hospital autopsy claimed ''acute pulmonary congestion." Dismayed, the Cronks ordered another autopsy by a private pathologist, Dr. Charles E. Black. His report was startling: death had resulted from severe chest and abdominal injuries, including contusions of the lungs, stomach and diaphragm, apparently caused by beatings. Three weeks later, Weekender published its own account of Cronk's death as well...
...something new arising from the deep unconscious." As the rigid boxes of 19th century positivism disappear from our culture and new epiphanies of consciousness unfold themselves, it is possible that we may return to that receptiveness in which earlier civilizations saw their angels. Except that, inevitably, we will call ours something else...
...trouble?trouble so deep and pervasive as to threaten the future of our nation," declared a major report to last week's White House Conference on Children. "Can the family survive?" asks Anthropologist Margaret Mead rhetorically. "Students in rebellion, the young people living in communes, unmarried couples living together call into question the very meaning and structure of the stable family unit as our society has known it." The family, says California Psychologist Richard Parson, "is now often without function. It is no longer necessarily the basic unit in our society...