Word: downward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Doing Nothing. Some 2.4% of the nation's 65-and-over oldsters have been forced to give up the fight for self-reliant existence and have entered one of the thousands of institutions for the aged that range downward from expensive private adequacy to public squalor. Whether they are in converted Manhattan brownstones or onetime country estates, mental and physical deterioration usually comes fast amid the frayed checkerboards, the flickering television sets and the cold tea. In one such home on the Eastern seaboard, a former foreman said softly to a visitor last week: "I can't think...
Long on Shorts. Disconcerted by the overall news, the stock market-itself a leading indicator of sorts-slipped haplessly downward. Despite a feeble rally toward week's end, it closed on Friday with the Dow-Jones industrial average at 577.18, a loss of more than 13 points for the week. From the New York Stock Exchange came news that the number of shares borrowed by short sellers had risen by mid-July to the highest level (5,159,000 shares) in nearly four years. This was a sure sign that many Wall Streeters were betting that the market...
...than doubled. As a result, total farm production has greatly increased, despite a steady migration of farmers and sons of farmers into nonfarm jobs. But U.S. demand for farm products has failed to keep pace with the supply, and the result has been an oversupply that has put persistent downward pressure on farm prices and farmers' incomes...
Sweeping the area, the Rangers destroyed two Viet Cong mantraps-camouflaged pits filled with barbed steel spikes. One pit was designed as an inverted cone so that if a leg were thrust into the trap, it would be impossible to pull it up again through the downward-pointing spikes. Rangers warned the U.S. observers examining the pits to avoid the barbs, which are usually covered with human excrement, or stronger poisons if available...
...pressure downward from Pusey will not be the only check on the new Dean's freedom. Another potential challenge comes from a man who on paper would seem to be a subordinate to the Faculty Dean, the Dean of the College, John U. Monro. In practice, however, Monro has tended to subordinate, and has acted more often as a free agent troubleshooting around the Harvard administration at will. The need for such a man is great, but it is apparent only after a rather tortuous line of reasoning has been followed. The theory runs this way: Faculty men have...