Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still the city fought for its life. Writing off fashionable Laurel Park's $50,000 homes because the area is lower than the arroyo lip, Harlingen took its stand in the central district, sandbagging dikes across streets wherever crews could find relatively high ground. Bulldozers gouged a 10-ft.-high earth embankment across one stretch, sacrificing the airport to save the city's core. Water mains burst and sewers backed up, spurting like geysers, as exhausted workers clung to the defense perimeter. Armed guards battled diamondback rattlesnakes as plentiful as worms after rain. Bushes turned black with water...
...campaign to silence "unruly" writers, Czechoslovakia's Communist regime is writing its own record of repression. Last week, at a two-day meeting in Prague, the party's Central Committee 1) expelled from the party Novelist Ludvik Vaculik, 41, Playwright Ivan Klima, 36, and Critic Antonin J. Liehm for "attitudes incompatible with party membership," 2) purged Novelist Jan Procházka, 38, of his alternate membership on the Central Committee for "mistakes in his literary activities," and 3) placed Literární Noviny, the weekly journal of the Czechoslovakian Writers' Union, under the Ministry of Culture...
...reserves to finance it have grown only 40%. Last year hoarders squirreled away almost as much gold as the world mined; with increasing industrial demand for the metal (for everything from computer diodes to the skin of Titan III), the store of gold in the free world's central banks actually dwindled for the first time in modern history. So far, the U.S. and British balance-of-payments deficits have covered the gap, but if and when the deficits are brought under control, the resulting shortage of funds could cripple international commerce...
...officials in Rio when he called last week's agreement "the greatest step forward since the creation of the IMF" 23 years ago at Bretton Woods, N.H. It was also a considerable personal triumph for U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, who had to overcome the fears of skeptical central bankers that the U.S. would use S.D.R. to cover up its chronic payments deficit...
...central question is still just how much Harvard teaching fellows are willing to countenance, either by way of University intransigence or Federation activism. The Federation has no official membership, only a cadre of energetic organizers. It may find itself in the position of the advancing general who looks over his shoulder and finds to his horror that he has left his army several miles behind...