Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Kennedys' social activities keep the State Department's protocol division so busy that Protocol Chief Angier Biddle Duke, weary after making arrangements for two official visits in one week, last week fell asleep at the luncheon for the Kekkonens. Ordinarily that would have been a social disaster...
Warns Conant, in sum: ''The building up of a mass of unemployed and frustrated Negro youth in congested areas of a city is a social phenomenon that may be compared to the piling up of inflammable material in an empty building in a city block. Potentialities for trouble...
Avenues, colonnades, and shops were part of a rebuilding project begun about 400 A.D. Disaster struck this sumptuous quarter of the city some 200 years later when Persian invaders overran Sardis. Byzantine engineers later levelled the toppled columns, walls and other debris and on top laid a much humbler cobble...
∙ In the Yale Review, writing for its 50th anniversary issue (TIME, Oct. 13), Wallich compares the "innocence" of the national economy 50 years ago with its current complexities, decides that the marketplace, for all its flaws, is still impressively viable. The U.S. economy, says Wallich, has stayed healthy not...
Up untill about four months ago, only Long Island had managed to escape this national disaster. Garden City, N.Y., bastion of decent food, boasted a chain of three hamburg stands (all of which, to boost the appeal of their product, were forced to serve their standard 1/4-pound burgers by means...