Word: eral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that there are more activists among humanities and social science students than among engineers; freshmen and sophomores, who are likely to be "anxious, disoriented and lonely" after leaving home, are prime can didates to join protest movements. The better universities, which have "the most creative, intellectually oriented and lib eral faculties," influence the more affluent students away from the conservatism of their parents. But when students find themselves torn between the attitudes of their parents and of the university, many, he says, tend to "escape the choice by abstaining from politics and accepting the doctrine that school and politics...
...External Affairs Minister Paul Hasluck, 62, Labor and National Service Minister Leslie H. Bury, 54, and Education Minister John G. Gorton, 56. In the end, it was a tribute to Australia-and to Holt-that overall government policy itself will probably shift little, either under McEwen or his Lib eral successor. Above all, McEwen promised last week that he would stand behind Holt's commitment to Viet...
Answers in Part. What accounts for labor's militancy? One reason is prosperity. In a time of low unemployment (now 3.8%), the worker commands a premium. Other goads are inflation and ever rising local and state taxes-not to mention the threat of a new 10% fed eral surtax (see following story). In their drive for higher wages, union members are rejecting one-seventh of the contracts accepted by their leaders...
...Psychology. Opponents of the bill were uneasy about giving legal sanction to big dailies to consolidate on grounds as vague as economic "failure." "It is unnecessary and psychologically bad," said New York Times Gen eral Counsel Louis M. Loeb, "for the press to take advantage of its political influence to get special advantages that other businesses do not enjoy." Loeb saw no reason for the Government to interfere with most joint operations, unless the "cooperating papers agree to fix rates below what may be justified for the purpose of obtaining an advantage at the expense of competition...
Commercial fishermen now take about 50 million Ibs. of the plentiful alewives from Lake Michigan each year, for processing into fish meal, fish oil, and cat and chicken food. Worried fed eral and state agents have stocked the lake with 2,000,000 steelhead trout and 300,000 coho salmon, hoping that they will take to an alewife diet and proliferate, thus bringing the ecology of the lake back into balance...