Word: d
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today's youthful dissenters are accustomed to brickbats from the older generation. Imagine their surprise at receiving a bouquet from the Establishment. Wrote John D. Rockefeller 3rd, 62, chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation, in a recent article for the Saturday Review: "There is much to irritate and disturb the older generation. But there is also great potential for good. Instead of worrying about how to suppress the youth revolution, we of the older generation should be worrying about how to sustain...
What do these diseases of man and beast have in common? Probably, says Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek, a top researcher at the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, they are all caused by extraordinarily slow-acting viruses-none of which has yet been definitely seen, even with the electron microscope...
...always going to make a movie, or cut a record, or start a new hotel, or come up with a new orange drink." Her parents separated when she was twelve, and four years later Gloria went to live with a sister in Washington. Before that, she says, "I'd never lived any place to invite anybody home to. I thought that people always ate out of refrigerators...
...fast trains, like jet planes, cost more than the older and slower equipment that they will replace. But they can more than pay their way-provided that travelers support them at the ticket window. How many will? A study by Arthur D. Little Inc. estimates that on trains restricted to speeds under 120 m.p.h., rail passenger traffic would rise 6% on the New York-Boston run and only 1 % on the New YorkWashington run. If the speed limit were raised to 150 m.p.h., however, the number of passengers would jump 65% on the former and 18% on the latter...
...theater lights dim. The audience hushes. It is that tingling, anticipatory moment before the curtain rises. Suddenly, bouzouki music shreds the air, and in orchestra seat D-113 Jean Kerr says with a trace of apprehension: "Sounds like we are back at Zorbd." The fear proves groundless. True, the initial setting is Greece, but the play, Forty Carats, is a frothy French farce from Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy, the team that wrote Cactus Flower. It is a comedy of new marital modes and manners, precisely the sort of show that people always say they want...