Word: factly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...June 13] may be glad to work for half of that 20 years from now, if the experience of their elders is any criterion. The crime of American business is that it pays more for a 25-year-old than for a 45-year-old. In fact, not one blue-chip company will even hire anyone over...
...central fact today in the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union is that progress in technology has made it both necessary and possible to place restraints on the nuclear-arms race. The technological stars and planets are now in favorable conjunction-and they will not stay that way for long...
Still, elections are won by pluralities, as Richard Nixon can testify, and the fact is that today the Marchis and the Procaccinos are in almost every instance beating the Lindsays and the Wagners. "I didn't make this up, now," George Wallace told TIME Correspondent Kenneth Danforth, shortly after the New York election. "Some Northern writer did. This man wrote that what we're hearing now is 'Wallaceism with a Yankee accent.' That's pretty good, I think...
That is a truth that moderate and liberal leaders must recognize. Even so, it is equally true that the "underclass"-the blacks, the Mexican Americans and others-have even more reason to feel left out. They too are fed uo, with justice delayed and promises deferred-a fact that Cartoonist John Fischetti expressed in a drawing of an anonymous black imitating the President's "up to here" gesture. Yet viewed rationally, the long-range interests (if not the short-term problems) of the two sides coincide. The slums suffer more from crime and disorder than the suburbs, and blacks...
Reconciliation will probably be the nation's greatest task for decades. The tragic fact of 1969 is that many voters apparently do not recognize the challenge and that so few leaders are able to point it out to them. What is the prognosis? "Only a crazy man would feel very hopeful," says Sociologist David Riesman. "But only a self-indulgent man would give...