Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moving to the flossy, faddish suburbs. The original Hollywood neighborhood had deteriorated to the level of seedy respectability when hippies and a punk element, turned on by drugs, arrived in the mid-1960s. From 1969 through 1975, the robbery, burglary and homicide rates in Hollywood climbed nearly twice as fast as for Los Angeles as a whole; narcotics and liquor violations rose more than five times as fast. Last year there were 2,168 prostitution arrests in Hollywood-ten times the average for the city's 16 other police divisions. The streets teemed with whores, transvestites...
...reformers' temporary success that the seven major film companies left in the Hollywood area do not seem inclined to move. Besides, they still believe in make-believe. Under one rehabilitation plan, rows of shops would become typical sets from western or gaslight-era films, while minibuses would offer fast, easy rides for customers, But can the good guys really...
...France has no oil and very little coal, and the 1973 Arab oil boycott dramatically demonstrated French reliance on foreign energy. Since 1974, as a result, the government has organized an ambitious atomic-energy program to provide at least 40 conventional nuclear-power plants and a 1,200-megawatt fast-neutron plant that will breed plutonium fuel from uranium wastes, reducing any necessity for importing North American uranium. Scientists are sharply divided over the dangers that may be inherent in the breeder reactors, and President Carter has halted the U.S. breeder program as risky. The French are nonetheless pressing ahead...
...monastery of Kykko in the Troodos Mountains at 13 and took the religious name Makarios, which means "blessed" in Greek. He chose to become a "black" or celibate priest rather than one of the "white" priests, who are free to marry but cannot be consecrated bishops. Makarios rose fast: he was sent to Athens to study law and theology, later went to Boston University. In 1948 he was summoned home to turbulent Cyprus to become a bishop...
Appealing to the courts, the Nazis rescheduled their parade for July 4. But even after the U.S. Supreme Court in mid-June ordered a fast review, an Illinois appellate court scheduled a hearing for July 8, then ruled that any Nazi march through Skokie must be without swastikas. The reasoning: the symbol constitutes "fighting words" that would provoke the ordinary Skokie citizen to violence, and thus cannot be tolerated as ordinary free speech. Rather than march denuded of swastikas, the Nazis appealed further...