Word: dou
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...installment buyer is in for a shock this week. If he applies for a car loan, his banker will have to tell him that the true interest rate is about dou ble the 6% or so that the bank may have been advertising. If he uses a de partment store revolving-credit plan, his next bill will inform him that the 1½%-a-month interest charged on his unpaid balance works out to a yearly interest charge...
...campuses even if some universities are destroyed in the process. Harvard's Dean Franklin Ford describes the varying degrees of militancy as a series of concentric circles; most students are mainly onlookers (see chart). Unfortunately, the torrent of spring-term disorders has clearly put dozens of campuses in dou ble jeopardy. Repressive state legislators are on the war path; so are vigilante-minded conservative students. Unless moderates intervene, campus freedom and evolutionary reform may well be sacrificed to left and right extremists...
...State, Henderson is a man of fearsome energy. He is a longtime consultant to the U.S. Government on Negro affairs, helped develop the federal poverty program, and is chairman of the Task Force on Occupational Training in Private Industry for the U.S. Departments of Labor and Commerce. He has dou bled Clark's budget to $3,000,000 since he became president...
...that might be brought before the court in the future, but it still looked odd for a judge, in effect, to "take the Fifth." Though he was open and candid about his relations with the President, even his friends were dismayed by the extent to which Justice Fortas had dou bled as White House adviser. Nor was Fortas' case helped by comments from Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who said that the Justice's critics were motivated by "political partisanship and, in some cases, opposition to civil rights advances." Others claimed, with less reason, that anti-Semitism was involved...
...pixyish grimace on dresses. "Can you imagine wearing my face out in public?" giggles Pollard. "Making money off my face?" He's already swamped with new scripts, has signed on for another movie, and this week opens on Broadway in Leda Had a Little Swan. In a dou ble role, he plays a doddering prep school headmaster and, more in character, an ultra-hippie student leader...