Word: feds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dutch, dependent on the Rhine for nearly half their drinking water, closed off the sluices that fed the river into purification plants. As rumors swept The Netherlands that nerve gas had contaminated the Rhine, police warned farmers to evacuate their cattle from riverside meadows. Some intrepid souls who still take dips in the rancid waters were dragged from the river. Within hours, tons of dead fish began drifting, belly up, across the border...
...greeted by these experiments in many styles and mediums with a louder-than-usual tone. A minimal sculpture sits contemplating its own existence, while a geometric plastic chess set looks ready to be used. All the works are executed with scholarly precision. They will not shock any eye fed with the black cubes of Tony Smith or color-swirled bus posters of Peter Max. The students seem to be working our moderate styles before they break into more radical imagery...
That is a truth that moderate and liberal leaders must recognize. Even so, it is equally true that the "underclass"-the blacks, the Mexican Americans and others-have even more reason to feel left out. They too are fed uo, with justice delayed and promises deferred-a fact that Cartoonist John Fischetti expressed in a drawing of an anonymous black imitating the President's "up to here" gesture. Yet viewed rationally, the long-range interests (if not the short-term problems) of the two sides coincide. The slums suffer more from crime and disorder than the suburbs, and blacks...
Early in 1966, the Prince jumped to Australia and Timbertop, a Gordonstoun-like branch of Melbourne's posh Geelong school. Charles arrived in February, and for the next six months took 50-to-60 mile hikes in the outback, cooked johnnycakes over his own campfire, fed the pigs and chickens, and chopped wood by the cord. His schoolmates were friendly, though he recalls being chaffed as a "Pom" (Aussie slang for an Englishman) on at least one occasion. "I had an umbrella with me," he said. "It had been raining quite heavily, and they all looked rather quizzically at this...
...would balk at paying for what some economists now call the "marriage of the warfare and the welfare states." When Johnson belatedly asked for a tax increase in 1967, Congress dallied for ten months before enacting it. By the time the sur charge took effect a year ago, the fed eral deficit had swelled to $25 billion...