Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks, Cuban billboards, radio and television trumpeted the need for volunteers, promising lavish vacations to champion choppers. "My dear," a husband chirruped to his wife on a Havana soap opera, "when I go to the cane field and really work for my country, all my aches and pains disappear." Every village, factory, business, union and government agency received a quota, and any Cuban who failed to heed the call risked losing his job. Out they came last week, 1,000,000 strong, nearly paralyzing by their absence every government agency and private business. In the swing with Castro were...
Draft revision with more realistic opportunities for alternative service would improve the quality of both VISTA and Peace Corps volunteers. The "evasion mentality" now dominant among students on American campuses would largely disappear if volunteer service became a legitimate option. And the "unpatriotic" stigma would be removed from those willing to serve their country, but unwilling to fight or further a complex and dirty war in Vietnam. Revision would be the first step toward making the selective service genuinely selective; the sooner this step is taken, the better...
...down to an original 1943 calendar pinned on the wall of Roxy's. The mustiness that he seeks to enshrine, however, is not embalmed nostalgia. "I think of my art as laying a trail for people," he explains. "They can follow it, and at a certain point I disappear. Then they have to make a decision, even if it's only to get the hell out of there. No one can walk past a tableau; he has to walk into it. And if one person ends up being better, then I'm completely vindicated...
Above all, the publishers are proud of putting out newspapers in the nation's largest city and reluctant to see them disappear. They want to hang on to their personal platform in New York. One story has it that William Randolph Hearst Jr. has been holding up negotiations by demanding that the new paper run his personal column. "Oddly enough," says a top executive involved in the negotiations, "the biggest obstacle to merger is the personalities and pride of the very top men. It's a question of who wants to give...
...hazards of retirement, the bad side of the "good old days" in the early-20th century U.S. Why, one contributor asks, are workingmen rarely portrayed in any television dramas? "The deep thinkers who arrange things on the home screen," he wrote, "have somehow made the whole paycheck populace disappear. Automation at its deadliest couldn't possibly be more thorough...