Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kisses. "She's wide open," observes Brother Joey, taking over the love play on sofa and floor. All this happens in front of Teddy, who inexplicably makes no gesture of protest. He still maintains his deadpan cool when his father and brothers propose that Ruth stay on and earn her keep by working for them as a part-time whore. She agrees, her husband leaves, and at play's end the white-maned patriarch of the clan is sobbing at her feet, begging for a kiss...
...adjustment to civilian life is likely to be increasingly difficult and frustrating. The deferred students can parlay the degrees they earn in the next few years into high-paying jobs in government and industry. The disadvantaged, already darlings of the Great Society, can press for urban renewal and massive income transfer programs, such as the negative income tax, particularly after defense spending is reduced. But the veterans will find their experience in the arts of warfare of little use in peacetime. Coming disproportionately from the lower middle class, they must return to a society that is grateful for their service...
Engineers with a B.A., for example, can expect to start at $712 a month, compared with $676 for 1966 graduates; math majors may earn $636, against $605 for last June's seniors...
...made it past the smalltime in the States, but in Viet Nam he pulls $1,000 a week. Margee McGlory, a Negro pop, blues and jazz singer who does a fair imitation of Eartha Kitt, makes only $300 a week, but that is more than she was able to earn at home. Oliver Pacini, an accordionist who has spent years playing small dates in and around San Francisco, earns $150-$200 a show and is extremely popular because of his nostalgic sing-alongs...
...remained for Southern California to suffer the crudest fate of all. All the Trojans did was win-edging Arkansas 70-67 and Illinois 73-72 in the Los Angeles Basketball Classic. And what did that earn them? A berth in the finals against Lew Alcindor (TIME, Dec. 16) and his No. 1-ranked U.C.L.A. Bruins...