Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...live with the fear of turmoil in the streets. Last week the train of death and destruction slashed deep scars in Cleveland, where Mayor Ralph Locher had ignored persistent warnings of Negro unrest, and scratched New York City, where Mayor John Lindsay had set a notable pattern of personal concern for ghetto residents...
Mayor Lindsay himself, displaying the alertness and concern that brought him a victory over a tired Democratic machine last fall, was on the scene during much of the worst of the rioting. He took time to call on the grieving family of the boy who was killed, talked coolly with street-gang leaders and SPONGE officials. Unknown to most New Yorkers was the fact that the mayor has been making tours of the ghetto areas ever since his inauguration last January. Before last week's violence, he strode one evening among the crowds of East Harlem, played the bongo...
There was cause for concern. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the swiftest six-month cost-of-living increase since 1958. Capped by a gain of 0.3% for June, the consumer price index climbed 1.7% in the first half of the year to 112.9% of the 1957-59 average. For the twelve months ending in June, the rise was a hefty 21% . Industrial production and personal income also climbed to record levels in June...
...basic foreign policy concern of the Chinese, on the other and, was recovery of Taiwan, and they expected any alliance with the Russians to further that aim. But the Russians did not want to risk confrontation with the United States and refused to go along on Taiwan...
Israeli Grievance. Since then, the canal has been a going concern. Under Younes and Mashour, who succeeded him last October, and with the help of foreign loans, the canal has been widened by 80 ft. and deepened for drafts of 38 ft. instead of 35 ft. Employees are kept on their toes by Mashour, who tours the canal banks every day in a black Chevrolet. The one real grievance against Egypt is that it still bars the canal to Israeli traffic...