Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That, by and large, seemed to be the mood of the 90th Congress as it began its second session last week. The superficial conviviality of reunion coloring the first couple of days faded even faster than the suntans and windburns some members had brought back from Southern resorts and Northern ski slopes. The residual climate was grey, portending six or seven months of bilious dissension both among Democrats and between the parties, leading up to a rugged election season. Predicted Mike Mansfield, the spare-spoken Senate majority leader: "It will be a difficult session...
...week's end the pace was no faster. The Senate settled down for perhaps weeks of delay while Southerners maneuver against a relatively minor bill to improve enforcement of civil rights statutes; the bill would make it a federal offense to prevent the exercise of certain rights, such as voting. Enactment of the measure is expected eventually, but the President's major civil rights proposal, on open housing, has minimal prospects for success...
...beginning there was Superman. Today, reproducing like oversexed mutants, there is a whole squadron of superduper do-gooders streaking across the TV screen. They are not only faster than a speeding bullet, but they can also do things like liquefy and multiply, or fell a foe with a laser-beam glance. The skies are guarded by Roger Ramjet, the seas by Marine Boy, the barnyard by Super Chicken. What they can't handle, Granite Man, Frogman, Coil Man, Spider Man, Liquid Man, Aquaman, Multi Man and Birdman can. Yet of all the offspring of TV's comic book...
Last week those plans lay in shreds. Aiming to slash $2.4 billion from his government's budget as a necessary sequel to devaluation, Prime Minister Harold Wilson dispatched aides around the globe to tell his allies of new and faster military pullbacks - moves that would ring down the curtain on Britain as a major armed power of the world. Unless the plans are modified in last-minute Cabinet debate before he submits the new budget to Parliament this week, all but token numbers of Britain's military, the builder of its empire and binder of its commonwealth, will...
With a projected circulation of over 400,000, the News feels, its paper could be printed at 20% less cost than the short-lived World Journal Tribune. The News has faster, more modern presses than the WJT and is more centrally located in Manhattan. The city's big retailers, however, are remarkably slow to advertise in any untried medium; many are happy enough with the morning New York Times, the afternoon Post and the surrounding suburban papers. Running, on the average, some 30 pages fatter since the demise of the WJT, the Post feels more impregnable than ever. Despite...