Word: fields
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...said Justice Stewart last week, in an opinion joined by four of his colleagues. The Government, Stewart said, does not have to pay to help the poor exercise their constitutional rights: it did not create their poverty and so has no constitutional obligation to help relieve it in this field. The Supreme Court has ruled, he reasoned, that Americans have a constitutional right to use contraceptives and to send their children to private schools, but "it cannot be" that the Government must buy contraceptive devices for the poor or pay private-school tuition for their children. Nor does the fact...
...reported Schmidt, had abandoned two key preconditions for entering into negotiations with the U.S. on limiting the deployment of intermediate-range missiles in Europe. "This is not a breakthrough," Schmidt told the Bundestag on his return, but "it opens a chance of preventing an unfettered arms race in this field...
...jump, discus, shot-put and pole vault. American women rank among the world's fastest in the sprints, but a hamstring injury to Pan Am Games Champion Evelyn Ashford undermined U.S. hopes. Eastern Europeans would, as always, have car ried away most of the medals in distance and field events...
...With his field-tested flair for showmanship, and commercials for American Express behind him, Edson Arantes do Nascimento is chasing another goal: film acting. Pelé's role in Escape to Victory, now being shot by Director John Huston in Budapest, is classic typecasting. The former U.S. and Brazilian soccer star plays a former Trinidadian soccer star imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp along with Michael Caine, who, as luck would have it, played on the British national team, Sylvester Stallone, a brash American captain with promise as a goalie, and other prisoners of unquestionable talent-the cast includes...
...Parkinson, who has confined his studies to corporations and government agencies, turns his talents to a broader field-humanity itself. After careful study of his previously discovered laws, he has reached the conclusion that Parkinson's Law is merely one aspect of a more general Law. "Action," declares Parkinson, "expands to fill the void created by human failure...