Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more books are in the library's 81 branches). Unlike many of the world's other great libraries, which believe in the closed-door policy, the New York Public Library delivers books to anyone in ten minutes flat. Each day it answers 10,000 questions-over the counter, by mail and by phone-and for the answers it can rack its brain in 3,000 languages, including 600 African dialects...
...person deserves major credit it is, by general agreement, a Negro: the Rev. Kelly Miller Smith, 40, hulking (6 ft. 1 in., 200 lbs.) pastor of Nashville's First Baptist Church. Says a Nashville merchant with whom Smith successfully negotiated a settlement of Nashville's lunch-counter sit-in strikes: "The mayor didn't have anything to do with it. The ministers didn't have anything to do with it. The community relations people didn't have anything to do with it. But Kelly Miller Smith is as honorable...
Smith helped smooth the integration of Nashville's public schools, which had got off to a rock-throwing, bomb-hurling start. Today, some 180 Negro students attend nine formerly all-white schools, and the number increases-almost unnoticed-each year. Again, last year, when Nashville's lunch-counter sit-ins caused violence, it was Smith who led Negro negotiations with white merchants. He had a powerful lever. Says a department-store official of the lunch-counter settlement that resulted: "Sure, our lunch-counter business has dropped slightly from what it used to be. But it's nothing...
...Russians, too, seemed to have a problem of discipline. To counter widespread thievery from state farms and other state-owned operations, the government reinstated the death penalty for counterfeiting and large-scale embezzlement of state property, including falsification of production figures, which Khrushchev has complained of loudly in recent months. Another law provided heavier penalties for idleness and illegal private-enterprising...
...Explainer himself (he is apt to say such things as, "The third act is an affirmative commentary on society in general"), Feiffer knows that he is writing to an audience of Georges. What is more remarkable, each George, as he watches the fable, feels the futility of a crater counter, and is half convinced that he is all alone on the moon...