Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jolting indictment of the Baltimore force in 1965, every top cop in the country has learned to judge his department in terms of not only what it has done to curb crime but, more importantly, what it should be doing to adjust to the problems of a fast-changing and impatient society...
...journal Literárni Listy, speaks of the atmosphere as "a lovely dream from which we never want to wake." The dream, however, does have its limitations. Most of them are the result of the Dubček regime's fear of going too far too fast and perhaps allowing the reforms to get out of hand. Though the government has formally abolished censorship, for example, it asks editors not to write about some 12,000 items on a list of "state secrets." The list includes such seemingly harmless subjects as the price of veal and the cost...
Life was not easy for Chiang Kai-shek's mother, Wang Tsai-yu, a simple peasant woman who was widowed early and did embroidery to send her promising son to academies in Paoting and Tokyo, Japan. When she died in 1921, the fast-rising young Chiang matched her devotion by building her an elaborate tomb in the eastern China mountain village of Chikow, where the family lived. Last week, calling her memorial a "source of poison in Chinese society," an official Peking report joyfully revealed that members of the Red Guards had attacked the tomb and razed...
...ghettos may be churning and racial tensions rising, but at the same time a social phenomenon is on the rise: the black and white date. The barriers that once stopped black and white youngsters from socializing are coming down fast in many parts of the land. On weekends, mixed couples by the dozens stroll in Manhattan's Central Park, through Chicago's Old Town and Hyde Park areas, in San Francisco's North Beach. The strongest enclave for interracial dating is the school or college campus. A poll taken recently at Detroit's Wayne State University...
Because 95% of auto-accident in juries are ultimately settled for $10,000 or less, the companies figure that if only 30% of those offered fast payoffs accepted them, the experiment would cost insurers nothing extra. In the unlikely event that every victim took them up on their offer, the companies estimate that their claims costs, now inflated by legal fees and court awards for pain and suffering, would fall by at least...