Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second thought: perhaps a permissive social attitude toward homosexuality could serve as an element in the population-control picture over the long...
...states. But for 50 years nobody has really done anything about it until this Administration came to power. We have offered the most revolutionary legislation in the history of the republic in this respect." That legislation includes proposals for revenue-sharing with the states, welfare reforms and decentralized control of job-training programs...
Exploration. In the past, mutual fear has kept the arms race going. Administration advocates of arms control believe that the U.S.S.R. is simply trying to achieve parity with the U.S. in order not to negotiate from weakness. There is Soviet testimony to support that view. Georgy Arbatov, one of the Soviet Union's leading America watchers, believes that there is no longer a significant strategic gap between the two countries-and that this will make it easier for them to act on their concern for limiting the arms race...
Aside from Crane's fall in the standings, the biggest surprise in the elections was the low turnout; there were only about 25,000 votes cast on Tuesday, down for some 31,000 in 1967. Splinter candidates running on rent-control platforms generally did poorly, indicating that the bitter battle over the issue failed to draw many new voters to the polls...
Among those candidates, rock-music entrepreneur and Harvard Law graduate Steve Nelson did the best, gaining some 450 votes. Daniel F. Connelly, first chairman of the pro-rent-control Cambridge Housing Convention, got 253, while Cynthia F. Kline of the Cambridge Peace and Freedom Party polled...