Word: americas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They were angry at Lindsay's performance. But he won, and, after all, it is the "second toughest job in America...
Fortunately for urban America, John V. Lindsay won't go away... at least voluntarily. Now that he has been re-elected without Republican ties, the cities are his only constituency. We can be sure that he will persist in reminding the Administration of its urban obligations. But if the Administration is unresponsive, and if New York City's fiscal problems are as acute as they seem, Lindsay's victory will only be a "thumb-in-a-bursting-dike" holding action for New York...
...jerk who first started telling the world that apple pie was synonymous with America? William Jennings Bryan? Alexander Graham Bell? Durward Kirby? Well. whoever he was. he would probably insist that Take Me Along, this fall's Agassiz musical, is as American as apple pie. The show has all the credentials: a fourth-of-July setting, young lovers making a marriage pact under a full New England moon, parades, red-white-and-blue razzmatazz, you name it. But despite all that, don't be tricked: Take Me Along is as American as Jack Daniels booze-and all the better...
...billion every week; their per capita income ($4,111) is higher than that of any other state or any country on earth. Here too, think tanks like the Rand Corp. have evolved and become indispensable. With extraordinary skill ?and hubris?their staffers tackle virtually every problem in America, from campus riots to noise pollution. Think tanks by the score have attracted an intellectual elite to California. Robert Hutchins, president of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Santa Barbara, observes that the San Francisco-Los Angeles university axis has become "an intellectual flyway...
...travelers. Pan Am, TWA and Alitalia were selling $299 round trips between New York and Rome. BOAC offered a $260 fare between New York and London; Air Canada came in with $282 between Montreal and London. KLM announced its intention to reduce fares by nearly 50% from North America to Eastern Europe...