Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pomona Ambassador (to Mexico) Fulton Freeman saw students "coming into creative citizenship at a fascinating moment in history." Columnist James Reston, at Brandeis, deplored "poverty beyond understanding or excuse," and Internal Revenue Boss Mortimer Caplin, speaking at St. Michael's in Vermont, sternly disapproved "the excesses of expense-account living...
...plotting to respectability, the only question is when the conspirators will be unmasked. Among Frenchmen, who have long had a penchant for ideological crime, the rumors went back to last year's arrest of Yale Professor Frederick Barghoorn in the Soviet Union on spy charges. According to this account, the CIA had solemnly denied to Kennedy that Barghoorn was a CIA agent, but when the professor returned he told the President that he had indeed been spying for the CIA. Angered, Kennedy threatened a wholesale shake-up of the intelligence agency. Later the CIA got wind of the plot...
...Congress," says a leading scientist, "who feel that basic research is useless, something that scientists do to amuse themselves. So there is a tendency in Congress to cut basic research funds. When a person is budgeting, the first thing he is likely to cut out is his savings account. Basic research is like that savings account; it should really be the last...
...Question of Need. If a boycott is to work, it must be supported by the U.S. and Britain. Their purchases of such items as gold, copper and diamonds account for one-third of South Africa's trading income. They oppose the boycott, saying publicly that it would hurt black workers more than the white businessmen, but confiding privately that they need South Africa as both a supplier and buyer. The U.S. and Britain have banned arms shipments to South Africa, but in April British Labor Leader Harold Wilson, an Oxford-trained economist, questioned the wisdom of a full-scale...
...obey mother. Such findings were hardly helpful to the record industry in its search for a solid money-making groove. And then a new type of rock song began to climb the charts. Now it is the rock fan's wish to die that is supposed to account for the success of hot-rod and surfin' songs, a great tonic to the industry for all of a year...