Word: callings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that marked the Democratic Administrations since the 1930s. Rather, he pleaded for support from all levels of society in a drive for common participation that will probably be a dominant ambition of the new Administration. "I do not offer a life of uninspiring ease," he said. "I do not call for a life of grim sacrifice. I ask you to join in a high adventure?one as rich as humanity itself, and exciting as the times we live...
...Graduate Student Association is accepting applications from those running for graduate student positions on the Student-Faculty Advisory Council (SFAC). Bring position statements to Conant Hall 3a or call Paul Munyon at 864-5834 or x2155 by 5 p.m. today...
Aiming at Business. The last time funds drained out of lending institutions at such a rate was just before the crisis that bankers call the "1966 credit crunch." Bond prices crashed, the Dow-Jones average plunged 18%, and mortgage money grew so scarce that housing starts fell to a postwar low. Though some pessimists fear that all this could happen again, the banks have considerably more cash on hand in 1969 than in 1966. The Federal Reserve is also using its monetary weapons with more finesse...
...this colorful collection the Italians have lately added a less likely hero: the industrialist. He has earned national popularity because he and his kind are transforming Italy. The industrialists have produced an economic expansion that Italians call Il Miracolo or, simply, Il Boom, which has laced the countryside with crowded autostrade and studded the cities and villages with TV antennas. More fundamentally, Il Boom is converting Italy from a peasant society that served an elite into a consumer society that caters to the mass of the country's 54 million people...
...What. Red Beard is an oriental Pilgrim's Progress. In 19th century Japan, an ambitious young doctor (Yuzo Kayama) pays a formal call on the director of a public-health clinic. There he is shocked to find that he has been given a post as a mere intern...