Word: apts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British tend to think of their politics as urbane and fairminded. In large measure, they are. But at times the heirs of Cromwell and Pitt are apt to be more virulent than the heirs of Jackson and Truman. British political leaders can deftly cut each other's throats with the most brutal verbal slashes, and British political crowds can raise the fine democratic art of heckling to riotous dimensions. This happened once again in the windup of Britain's election campaign, suggesting that beneath the initially apathetic contest there was really a good deal of passion...
...flocks of Amenable Parrots (kneesocks, muffler, a Peck & Peck raincoat, and a penny for every loafer). In their place these days is a sleekly feathered creature who swings her hair when she walks, wears no makeup, likes to go shopping in a suit that really has pants, and is apt to go dancing in a dress that suggests it be done cheek to cheek...
Touring European capitals to explain U.S. policies in Viet Nam is rather too apt a way to spend those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer. So U.S. Envoy Henry Cabot Lodge, 62, found it extraordinarily pleasant to take a day off from his mission for a visit to Rome's Ostia Beach with Italian Protocol Chief Guerino Roberti and his family. The latest details in the daily papers on the shifting sands in Saigon could only illustrate what a grind diplomacy is. But as Roberti's noble Roman daughter Cristina pointed out, there are compensations-and Lodge needed...
None of this is apt to stop economists from worrying about inflation, even though natural market forces are also working to keep prices in line. U.S. factories are still operating at 83% of capacity, which rules out pressures for price increases from over-demand. Industry has either been able to absorb its costs through higher efficiency, or else-as in the case of the battle for the fuel market among oil, coal and gas -is caught in the kind of competition that produces price cuts. Besides, prosperous consumers tend to trade up to the better models that produce more money...
...system has been accused of preparing students for nothing but rendering them apt at everything. The accusation is doubtless as unfair as the rewards are solid. Says Roland Falletaz, a teacher in Rome: "Most of our graduates go on to higher education and become engineers, doctors, diplomats, professors and journalists. This future alone justifies any of the expenses France undertakes. Is there a nobler or more disinterested aim than to educate the cadres, the elites of tomorrow...