Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wake of the antiwar demonstrations that brought out some 200,000 protesters in San Francisco and New York (TIME, April 21), patriots of every stripe last week demanded legislation to penalize desecrators of the American flag. In New York, where at least one flag was burned in the Central Park Sheep Meadow by overardent symbolists, city police scrutinized thousands of photographs in search of identifiable flag razers, each of whom, if convicted, would have to pay a $50 state fine for touching off Old Glory. In Washington, South Carolina's Democratic Representative L. Mendel Rivers introduced a bill that...
Draft cards were equally fiery objects of concern. Federal law demands that every American male born after Aug. 20, 1922, must carry his Selective Service notification "at all times." Since some 75 young Americans burned their draft cards in Central Park during the antiwar weekend, the FBI set about tracking down the culprits. Many of them, it turned out, still had their cards; they had been burning licit scraps of notepaper. One readily identifiable card burner was Northwestern University Political Science Researcher Gary Rader, 23, a reservist in an Illinois Special Forces unit, who wore his green beret and Class...
...process of electing their own officials, the villages and hamlets will acquire a long-desired autonomy from Saigon. Villages, for example, will be able to retain some 40% of the taxes they collect, spend it on local public works. Since decades of nonparticipation as the pawns of arbitrary central government have given the villagers few skills to manage their own affairs, the Saigon government is providing winning village-council candidates with crash courses in the fundamentals of bookkeeping and governing...
...experts "proved" that attempts to improve reading by training eye movements were useless. Documented research had shown that eye movements had no independence but were only symptoms of the central brain processes of perception and comprehension. Because they are reflective rather than primary it must be useless to change the eye patterns. The logical conclusion is that the only way to improve reading is to improve the reader's ability to perceive and interpret the material. For this reason, few college reading centers in the 1950's offered any courses labeled "speed reading." Whatever teaching was done in this area...
...resolution passed by the club's executive committee specifically criticized the attacks on the Hanoi and Haiphong central cities and the MIG bases. The statement declared that "such bombings cannot...serve a useful military purpose but can only increase the danger of Russian or Chinese participation...