Word: factly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moved toward a new permissiveness in sex, however, no such tolerance has developed toward the use of drugs. Only those under 30 indicate any desire to legalize marijuana; otherwise, the denunciation of pot is overwhelming. In fact, 90% associate drug use with "moral corruption and decay"; 85% believe that smoking marijuana leads to use of stronger drugs; 74% believe it morally wrong; and 67% think it worse than drinking liquor...
...string left to him. "To elect Tom Bradley," he said at one point, "would be an invitation to violence in this city." Burt Lancaster campaigned for Bradley; Yorty called the actor a "militant extremist." John Wayne hailed the mayor as the man needed in these "dangerous times." Ignoring the fact that Bradley drew support from such respectable, centrist sources as the Los Angeles Times, the Democratic national leadership and Republican Congressman Alphonzo Bell, Yorty nevertheless repeatedly equated his opponent with the horrors of black and Red revolution...
...Gaulle's vacated job, presented a 12-point program that amounted to a New Deal for France complete with the ringing promise to make telephones available to every home.* Pompidou promised only slightly less, and added the guarantee that his promises would be kept, thanks to the fact that only he commands the Gaullist majority in the National Assembly. Carrying that message, Pompidou galloped through every part of France, visiting 42 towns within two weeks...
...said Nelson Rockefeller as he disembarked at Ecuador's Mariscal Sucre Airport last week on the second of four fact-finding tours of Latin America for President Richard Nixon. He soon encountered hard realities. Leftist students were out in force to give Rocky the most hostile reception of his travels thus far. A helicopter hovered protectively over the gray Mercedes carrying the New York Governor as it inched through back streets to avoid the mobs. The students fought police with bricks and stones. Stores, banks and schools shut down, traffic was paralyzed, and the smell of tear gas wafted...
...food is tasteless, monotonous and contains hardly any vitamins," the letter said. "Although we cannot really speak of constant hunger"-the maximum daily ration is 2,413 calories, mostly starch-"constant vitamin hunger is an indisputable fact. It is no accident that in the camps so many people suffer from stomach ailments." Food parcels are forbidden, the men said, and even in the kiosks, where they can buy five rubles' worth of goods a month, "buying green vegetables or other produce containing vitamins is impossible. Any one of us at any minute can be deprived of the right...