Word: complainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Across the line, Panama City (pop. 273,000) and Colon (pop. 60,000) are crowded and shabby, and the people are poor. The 15,000 Panamanians who work in the Zone do considerably better, with an average annual income of $2,200. But they complain about discriminatory pay scales for equal jobs and other "exploitation," past and present. Only in 1955 did the U.S. abolish the humiliating "gold" and "silver" drinking fountains, toilets and pay lines -segregation dating back to canal-building days when Panamanians were paid in silver, Americans in gold...
...Donald Stokes, "but this is an English company doing a deal with Cuba. I have no knowledge of having to go to America for permission to sell buses." Besides, if the U.S. expected to sell $300 million worth of wheat to Soviet Russia, it was in no position to complain about a $10 million British sale to Castro. As one Briton dryly put it: "The U.S. has a surplus of wheat-we have a surplus of buses...
...over ten straight opponents by a score of 215 to 65, Coach Darrell Royal's Longhorns stuck to the ground so doggedly that wags cracked "They don't beat you; they just bore you to death." Carlisle threw one touchdown pass all season. But he did not complain when halfbacks hogged the points. And he even managed an elegant shrug when newsmen asked how it felt to play in the shadow of a star like Staubach. Said Carlisle: "To each...
...Just Listen." The doctors agreed that the best thing they can do for such patients is to let them vent their feelings and not censure them. No one will go to a doctor and complain merely of unhappiness, because that is not acceptable, but unhappiness along with constipation is acceptable, and the doc tor must treat both. He can prescribe medication for the constipation easily enough, but for the unhappiness, said Dr. Stainbrook, he must offer the treatment recommended by British Psychiatrist Michael Balint: his time, his personality and his attention. He can do this merely by listening attentively...
With Burton's divorce two weeks ago, Eddie's usefulness ended; and Elizabeth Taylor almost immediately began to complain to the press that Fisher was in the way, that he was slowing things up, and that he was holding out for a payoff of more than...