Word: equalizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least a pledge of eventual independence for Viet Nam. France dithered. In August 1945, the Viet Minh launched their revolution, and on Sept. 2, 1945, Ho proclaimed the Vietnamese republic. Its declaration of independence, modeled on that of the U.S., included a preamble beginning "All men are created equal...
...close friends, watches an occasional movie in a converted hangar at the ranch (he invariably falls asleep). Sundays, he usually goes to one of the churches around Johnson City-Baptist or Catholic or Lutheran, it hardly seems to matter, as though he were facing God as an equal and the intermediaries were supernumerary. He is fit and tanned, relaxed and happy...
...rare moment, most of the U.S. seemed to be soothed and quiet. Except for the death and destruction wrought by Hurricane Camille, as summer drew to an end the nation basked in unwonted and unfamiliar calm. In California, President Nixon golfed and tended to minor matters of state with equal equanimity. The nation found solace in the reassuring trivia of routine. President and people took their cue from one another; each appeared to turn aside from grave national concerns to private delights of leisure. While it was scarcely the best of all possible worlds that Voltaire's caricature philosopher...
...Clapton, 24, and Drummer Ginger Baker, 30, who were two-thirds of the rock trio called Cream, which broke up last fall. Despite the heavy dose of Cream in its makeup, Blind Faith has a more relaxed, genial and lyrical quality than its predecessor. Musically speaking, Cream was an equal partnership of three hard-driving individualists, who broke up at the peak of their success from internal friction and the pressures of constant playing. With Blind Faith, Winwood does all the singing, while the others provide a solid harmonic core down below. To dazzle audiences, Cream used to display...
Nowhere have the sounds of outrage been heard more frequently than in New York City, where giant Consolidated Edison Co. has blamed conservationist opposition to its expansion plans for its difficulties in meeting growing demands for electric power (see ENVIRONMENT). Last week consumer wrath fell in almost equal measure on the New York Telephone Co., second largest in the Bell System. At a hearing called by the State Public Service Commission to investigate complaints of poor service, witnesses railed about everything from Manhattan's grossly overloaded Plaza 8 exchange to pay telephones in which the only working parts seem...