Word: fight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easy for us to laugh at homosexuals. Thankfully, Fortune and Men's Eyes is somewhat unique in this respect. It is more honest than the average minstrel show. Before it ends, it shows us a true hell where the whole world is a prison, where the homosexual must fight brutally so that he can stay...
Personal Revolution. The last act becomes participatory theater as actors and audience debate the significance of the play. Says one speaker from the stage: "Fellow workers, you must rise and fight the bosses. You are like the Communist dragon-seduced by the comfort that Capitalism offers you as a bribe to keep quiet. But refrigerators and TV sets won't solve your problems-only the revolution can give you the strength and human dignity denied the working class so long." In the village of Vignola, the audience was so aroused by this argument that a group called for flags...
...Democratic predecessors, nor is he likely to do so. The No. 1 economic problem is still inflation-a fact that was underscored last week by a Government survey predicting an increase in capital spending of nearly 14% in 1969, compared with only a 4% gain last year. To fight inflation, the Nixon Administration intends to extend the surtax, keep money tight and aim for a slight budget surplus-much the same policies that Lyndon Johnson pursued in his last days as President. Nixon will undoubtedly try to dispel the common belief that Republicans are irrevocably probusiness, especially since his overriding...
...taken into crazy-quilt mergers. Last week Nixon's chief trustbuster, Richard McLaren, said that his department may bring suit to break up some conglomerate mergers that have already taken place. McLaren thus goes beyond his Democratic predecessors, who showed no inclination to test their legal power to fight conglomerates. If McLaren sues, he will invoke Section 7 of the Clayton Antitrust Act, which prohibits corporate acquisitions that "substantially" lessen competition. Meanwhile, Congress is considering a bill to end the favorable tax treatment accorded to companies that issue debentures to pay for mergers...
...begin shipping its four-door Audi (U.S. price: around $4,000). Sweden's Saab will soon begin importing a new Maverick-sized car. "If Detroit can come into our market," says Stuart Perkins, head of Volkswagen of America, "we can go into theirs." It should be quite a fight...