Word: branded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cheers from the Harvard undergraduates are often the most disinterested if not condescending of any student body in the league. This is probably not due just to Harvard's traditional brand of boring football. Many Harvard undergraduates do have a condescending attitude toward "jocks...
...even to make it an issue. Public tolerance has its limits, but so long as Nixon seems inclined to reduce the level of fighting, he may proceed as slowly as he wishes. He retains his free hand to steady the dangers in the Middle East with a rather showy brand of gunboat diplomacy. As the Administration's Vietnam strategy has provided the President's only duty is to avoid a national nervous breakdown at home. Democracies will approve half-measures when all the real alternatives are distasteful. But having survived the sixties, America has lost its taste for internationalist oratory...
...reaction to rock-n-roll. Until Elvis, white musicians came to the Grand Ol Opry (a converted church still using the original pews) in Nashville to learn country music's own particular styles and techniques. But with Hound Dawg, using borrowed blues lyrics and Elvis's own brand of hard twang country steel guitar, all the walls between black and white music collapsed...
...sight in Brazil or Argentina, and Peru's ruling junta suggests that it may take 30 years to accomplish the reforms it has in mind. Though Venezuela, Colombia and Costa Rica remain healthy, functioning democracies, Uruguay, the erstwhile "Switzerland of Latin America," is beset by a vicious brand of urban terrorism and worsening economic problems. In neighboring Chile, the Congress is preparing to vote into power the first freely elected Marxist government in world history (see cover story...
...from union locals demanded an end to the no-strike clause and the slow arbitration process. Union President I.W. Abel managed to prevent the issue from coming to a vote, but he will be under continued severe pressure from the membership to abolish the clause. Abel's reasoned brand of trade unionism is being challenged by militant union members, who are angry about inflation, unemployment, student protest and the direction of society in general. As evidence of the rank and file's mutinous mood, several of the union's largest locals voted their veteran president...