Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fall's first week, the air was astir with talk of peace: pleas, proposals, propaganda of every hue. The dialogue yielded little hope of any quick, clean end to the conflict. It did, however, produce the most comprehensive, reasonable, and unequivocal statement of American policy to date...
Proposition 16 is the product of CLEAN Inc. (California League Enlisting Action Now), a Los Angeles-based lobby founded by San Diego's conservative Republican State Assemblyman E. Richard Barnes, a retired Navy chaplain who argues that smut has brought about a U.S. "moral crisis." The organization's campaign director is William K. Shearer, a top tactician in putting across the now-voided housing initiative (Proposition 14). Says Shearer: "I always liked to think of myself as the most conservative man in San Diego County...
...anarchy of life opposed by the clean disciplines of totalitarian power: it is an ancient human contest, and Warner has the insight to see that these antipathetic power forces are also sympathetic. "It seemed to us," Roy says of the aerodrome and the village, "that between these two enemies there was something binding and eternally...
Plague & Piastres. When the first youths appeared and started shoveling away piles of garbage that had accumulated in the shantytown, the neighbors greeted their efforts with cynical amusement, figuring that the clean-cut do-gooders would soon tire of such dirty toil. One morning after two months, however, 90 locals turned out to help; from then on District 8 became a joint enterprise. Residents and student volunteers dredged 30 acres of dumps and swamps, dug drainage ditches and water reservoirs, carved out three miles of street. New homes have been started for 600 families. One hospital and 17 health centers...
...driving record has been safe at any speed, an Italian magistrate ruled last week that there was sufficient evidence of recklessness to justify an indictment for manslaughter. Penalty for conviction: one to five years, though a suspended sentence is the rule in auto cases if the defendant has a clean record...