Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less than on the mainland. Yet, since most staples must be imported, prices average 25% over those Stateside. Electric bills average $45 monthly, eggs cost 99? a dozen, soft drinks average 75? for a large bottle-making the soda as costly as the Scotch. Housing is astronomically high: a fair-sized lot with a modest home can run as high as $75,000. Bad roads are made even more hazardous for tourists by the custom of driving on the left. Water is so scarce that some areas are without for eight hours every night, although a badly needed saltwater conversion...
...dull. Its cities die at dusk, and those of its citizens who venture forth show on their faces the ennui, the boredom, of people who are constantly subjected to ideological blasts. East Germany's 40 daily newspapers are full of cant and propaganda, and even an annual folk fair has to be called a "Festival of Creative Socialism." Its intellectual life is almost totally noncreative, since voices that speak or hands that write with less than extreme caution quickly get their owners in trouble...
...married over the weekend in an Ethical Culture ceremony in Manhattan. Explained Lynn: "We're not Ethical Culturists, atheists, Buddhists or agnostics, but we do believe in having the Ethical man along." Asked about her earlier pronouncements on marriage, she smiled: "I've been talking a fair amount of rubbish lately...
...Problem Kids. Backed by the Albany Board of Education, Becker has proved that tough but fair discipline is a remarkable impetus to learning. There are no broken windows at Schuyler High School, and rarely is disrespect shown to teachers. None of the students are permitted to sport Beatle haircuts or far-out clothes. Becker tells them sim ply: "The other students are not in school to look at you. You're here to learn." Schuyler High will even accept potential reform-school candidates. One such student was recommended for enrollment by the Albany police after he had stolen...
...development" that looked in some ways as if it had been drawn from a U.N. economic report. He suggested that prosperous nations might well subsidize the exports of poor countries by agreements guaranteeing prices of the underdeveloped world's commodities. "Freedom of trade," the Pope contended, "is fair only if it is subject to the demands of social justice." He renewed his call, made during his 1964 visit to Bombay, for a world fund made up of a portion of the money now spent on armaments to "relieve the most destitute of this world." Whatever the channels, he declared...