Word: decays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LAOS, the decay of the U.S. position has gone ever further. From the beginning, Washington hoped somehow to avoid having to accept Prince Souvanna Phouma as Premier of Laos. Last week the hope went glimmering. In a candy-striped tent on the Lik River, at meetings punctuated by toasts in champagne and burgundy, "Neutralist" Souvanna was selected Premier by two fellow princes, his Communist half brother Souphanouvong and the dispirited pro-Westerner, Boun Oum. Worse, it seems evident that U.S.-supported General Phoumi Nosavan will be fobbed off with a minor cabinet post-or with none at all. His Royal...
...west Texas town of Wink (pop. 1,863) enjoyed temporary oil booms and momentary prosperity in 1928 and again in 1936. But since the last riggers and roustabouts moved out. Wink has experienced nothing except silent decay and slow death. Wink's housewives watch warily for rattlesnakes slithering through the mesquite and catclaw bushes in their yards. Because the town lies 23 miles from the Fort Worth El Paso highway, only an occasional tourist passes through. There is no train service beyond an occasional Texas-New Mexico freight clattering over a weed-sprinkled spur line...
...millions allocated for repairs to the schools (267 of them are 50 years old or more); the backlog of needed repairs is about $75 million. Bureaucracy stifles new teaching methods, which flourish in suburban public schools. Each year, the system drives more parents to the suburbs, feeding the decay of city schools...
...Decay Now, Collapse Later. Throughout rang the repeated cries that the "decayed capitalist shell" is about to break, that "socialism will inevitably succeed capitalism everywhere." Communism's more modest aim is still to catch up with its capitalist rival, the U.S. Curiously, Khrushchev's document has dropped the Soviet pretense that overall industrial output will soon match U.S. production. His target for 1970 is a 150% increase, which would hardly more than equal the U.S. 1960 level. And by 1970, the U.S. itself will have pushed production far above today's mark-barring, of course, the complete...
Down by the Riverside. Appalled by the growing decay, Newburgh's city council last fall went looking for a businesslike city manager. The council's choice was brash, balding Joseph McDowell Mitchell, 39, who had already served in administrative jobs in Culver City, Calif., and Marple Township, Pa. Mitchell ordered a survey of the welfare program, discovered that Newburgh's relief expenditures -$983,000 out of an overall city budget of $3,134,000 for 1961-came to more than the city spent on police and fire protection. He seemed shocked to learn that most...