Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Force colonel at the Pentagon wisecracked that the U.S. might eventually have to "charter an air force from Pan Am." Better yet, said another, in case of conflict "we could subcontract the whole war." Still others joked bitterly about how the service had suffered "its highest attrition rate ever on a single...
...conflict simmered until June 29 of last year, when Lefebvre boldly ordained as priests 13 graduates of his unrecognized seminary. A month later the Vatican announced that the archbishop had been suspended from all priestly functions. Ignoring the order, Lefebvre has repeatedly celebrated his Latin Masses around Europe. His supporters have even seized a church in Paris...
...addition, the University's famous "Reading Period During Spring Sports Season" had come around, so academic pressure had now worked its way into every strike zone, every pitching motion, and every individual psyching procedure. Somehow, in the midst of this grand conflict, optimism still reigned...
Most readers of Playboy and Penthouse are between 18 and 35 years of age, come from higher-income families and have one or more years of college-exactly the male market most sought by Madison Avenue. Caught in a conflict between opportunity and conscience, or perhaps just worried about what their wives might think, most manufacturers and advertisers for a long time shied away. Liquor and tobacco advertisers, and makers of foreign cars and cameras have no such qualms, and their ads fill the magazines. Detroit-and General Motors in particular-has held off. Playboy attracts twice the advertising revenue...
...fears any movement that would put his kind of magazine back under the counter. Whatever his motives, Bob Guccione is responding to a problem that the Supreme Court, with all its difficulties in defining obscenity and upholding the First Amendment, has had a hard time handling. It is a conflict between two liberties, in a society that no longer feels it possible or desirable to legislate uniformity. A growing number of Americans might concede that adults have a right to read whatever they wish-or at least might accept that the law requires this. But they also argue an equal...