Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Drawing a deep breath, Los Angeles' Mayor Samuel Yorty intoned: "Smog, transit, taxes, education, dangerous drugs, judicial appointments, bank charges, saving and loan charters, law enforcement and other great areas of state concern must be divorced from shoddy machine politics." Though his mammoth city has headaches enough of its own, the mayor's indictment was aimed at the Democratic administration in Sacramento. Thus, after years of feuding with Governor Pat Brown, Sam Yorty announced last week that he would challenge him for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in June...
...about the perils of people's imperialism. That made it pretty certain that Red China's leaders are currently going through their own agonizing foreign policy reappraisal. To be sure, Chinese foreign policy problems in Africa, Indonesia and Cuba have been vexing. But China's greater concern is the sorry way that the war in Viet Nam is going...
...Ford has no trouble convincing anyone that the swiftest road to hell is to read the early plays of George Bernard Shaw. That is what his daughter is doing, and she has already fallen in love with a chauffeur. Depravity surrounds Ford. The clerk of his sporting-goods concern has lifted half a million dollars from the firm, and makes a scoundrelly proposition. He will abscond with the loot unless Ford gives him his daughter's hand and a general managership. The swag is in two matching bags. When a third identical bag containing the downstairs maid...
...rolled off the production lines last week-15 days earlier than last year. It was a solid sign that 1966 will turn out to be the fifth straight year of superlatives for the nation's most influential industry. Nevertheless, the cheers were mixed with a trace of concern in Detroit. The auto manufacturers, who not long ago were freely forecasting that 1966 would set another sales record, are now beginning to think that it may have to take a back seat to 1965, when Americans bought 9,300,000 cars...
What MacInnes does best is write a literate and believable story of suspense. At 58, she is a member of a disappearing breed, a natural storyteller who attempts neither to spoof her readers nor impress them with literary pretension. Her sole concern is a good story, and her characters are neither clowns nor antihero supermen, but human beings...