Word: waves
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Wave upon wave, the British have been hitting Florida's beaches ever since. An estimated 200,000 vacationers from the United Kingdom will have visited Miami Beach on daily flights by year's end, adding some $100 million to the economy of that fabled strip. They are lured to the U.S. by reasonable hotel rates and charter packages and Freddie Laker's Skytrain jet service. Inflation back home and the pound sterling's strong exchange rate against the dollar make Miami a splendid buy. According to the U.S. Travel Service, 1.25 million British tourists will visit...
Other Floridian hosts are also happy. Some hotels that normally close down for the summer now wave the Union Jack; the Saxony has converted its coffee shop to a teahouse where a full contingent of Brits can also have a $2.75 fish-and-chips lunch. Some visitors are developing a taste for bagels, but once kosher menus now feature bangers and mash (sausages and mashed potatoes). The Miami News has added a "News from Britain" section and has slapped the British ensign on its vending machines. Dart boards are sprouting like bougainvillea. Rivers of Guinness and Watney's pour...
...wave of reform ended when Tom Murton left Arkansas. The new warden reverted to a strict trustie system that eliminated the prisoners' new-found sense of responsibility. A few of Murton's innovations were retained but the system was not new, only dressed-up. "Cosmetic changes only domesticate the animal but don't kill it," Murton says...
There is a dark side to Soviet psychiatry: its misuse as a political weapon to punish dissidents, in 1970 Biologist Zhores Medvedev, who now lives in London, was committed to a psychiatric hospital on the order of his city commune. He was released 19 days later, after a wave of international protest. Medvedev had struck a deal with hospital authorities that if discharged he would write nothing about his hospitalization or the struggle to get him out; when he learned that he would have to report regularly to mental health centers for follow-up care, he and his brother, Historian...
...peculiar practitioners. The current toast of Moscow, for example, is a Georgian nurse named Dzhuna Davitashvili, who claims she can diagnose illnesses without laying eyes on the patient. Muscovites are clamoring to see her, and eagerly pass stories about how she cured cancer or made roses bloom with a wave of her hand. Nurse Davitashvili refuses to charge fees-but she does accept presents...