Word: basics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...planning commission, Donald H. Elliott, who is helpless to do anything about it since the project conforms with zoning requirements. Urbanologists pointed out that the new building would press an estimated 12,000 new office workers into the already overpressed Grand Central area. But New Yorkers' basic objections were esthetic, though few people exactly articulated this, or could have if they tried. A certain esthetic pleasure used to come from the sight of the Grand Central complex-from the north, a stubby tower with a clock at its architectural nave; from the south, a Beaux Arts Eclectic facade crowned...
...time a gun bill is introduced anywhere, a number of basic shibboleths are constantly repeated by N.R.A. officials. Among them...
Owners of rifles and shotguns must be 18, and need only the basic I.D. Those who would pack a pistol or revolver must also be at least 18, and need two additional permits (total cost: $5) to purchase and carry a handgun. Retailers must keep complete records of long-arm sales and must forward records of handgun sales to police...
...family as "antiquated" and predicted that it would vanish along with capitalism; the Bolshevik coup in 1917 thus brought casual mating and divorce, and a brief fling at free love. The man who stopped it was that formidable patriarch Joseph Stalin, who proclaimed that the family was "the basic cell of society" and put himself on the side of old-fashioned peasant virtue. But even Stalin was not above endorsing a bit of pragmatic promiscuity when the times dictated. In 1944, with the population decimated by war, Stalin wanted to boost the birth rate and decreed that men would...
Fully Meshed. Until the trade pact was signed, Canada's U.S.-owned auto plants had to gear themselves to a relatively small market. Although demand was sufficient to justify manufacturing a number of basic models, it hardly warranted turning out a full line. If a Canadian buyer wanted a Thunderbird, it had to be imported-with a 17½% duty added onto the price...