Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well under way in star-chamber secrecy. At midweek, students in Ankara began bandying about the rallying password "55 K" (translation: May 5 at 5 p.m. at Kizilay Square). The password reached the ears of the police, and the Menderes forces thought they saw an opportunity to organize a counter-demonstration to show the world that the mass of Turks still gave their support to the government. They set to work...
...were on hand in Kizilay Square. Troops arrived and set up a cordon. At 5:40, two limousines carrying Menderes and President Celal Bayar drove up. With a confident smile Menderes jumped out to shake hands. But within seconds, several hundred anti-Menderes students moved in. The carefully planned counter-demonstration was suddenly swamped in a booing crowd...
Author Lacy sees little reason to believe that there has been much relative growth in "hard-core," out-and-out pornography (sold under the counter), and is skeptical of some of the statistics bandied about semipornographic publications (sold openly). If the often-mentioned $1 billion figure were accurate, says Lacy, "every family in America would be spending on the average about $20 a year on pornography." Psychiatrists, sociologists and experts on juvenile delinquency disagree, too, on the effects of pornography on the young-"a very few even see possible indirect benefits from obscene materials that can divert into fantasy certain...
...Yorkers were buying their morning Times and afternoon World-Telegram and Sun under the counter at Union News Co. dealers last week. Reason: a campaign by Union News Co.'s President Henry Garfinkle to hike newsstand prices of the city's dailies to make up the cost of a dealer strike last winter. "All I want is my profit," said Garfinkle. His equally profit-minded dealers followed orders to "hide" the papers, but chanted to passersby...
...Charles Percy) Snow is a Geiger-counter Galsworthy. Himself trained in science (chemistry and physics). Novelist Snow set out two decades ago on a vast and ambitious project: a cycle of eleven novels, titled Strangers and Brothers, intended to probe the broad upper middle class that dominates science, education and much of government in the age of the Scientific Revolution. In his own way, Snow is writing about Organization Man. His hero is the 20th century manager, science-minded, a born administrator and as typical of his era (in the words of one British critic) "as tyrants were of Renaissance...