Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foliage of trees surrounding the campus. There was only passing allusion to dissent in the address by Larry C. Dillard, senior-class president and a Negro. Dillard cited widespread poverty, "the horror of Viet Nam," the plight of the black man and campus disorders, and urged his fellows to fight for change in order "to form a just society...
...Within the next year," said Thompson, "some of us will die, others will be maimed, in a war which has been declared a mistake. And yet it continues. The war must end now, and the fight for our cities, for our nation, for our people must begin." As their degrees were awarded, some of the new Yale graduates released helium-filled blue balloons that soared into the June sky; Thompson's somber message would not disappear so easily...
...more realistic reason for the rancor is the fact that as many as 25% of local residents-most of whom are Mexican Americans-are unemployed, and many resent the white middle-class hippies' obvious flouting of the American ideal. "They are making fun of our poverty and our fight for survival," says Francis Quintana, a local school principal. Another explanation is that local entrepreneurs fear the hippies will hurt Taos' largest industry, tourism. "Tourists don't want to come and share the venereal disease and hepatitis with us," said Mrs. Beverly Gonzales, wife of a Taos merchant...
...Government's top economic policymakers managed to sound downright alarmist as they made a rare joint appearance at a Washington press conference to plead for an extension of the 10% surtax on personal and corporate incomes. That tax, which is due to expire June 30, is designed to fight inflation by reducing demand and increasing the Government's budget surplus...
Tighter money, the tax fight and the mere talk of controls made investors highly nervous about the future. On the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow Jones industrial average fell four days out of five last week. Altogether, it declined 30 points, to 895. In four weeks, the average has fallen 72 points, or 7%, and is now at its lowest level since last August. All the signals from Wall Street and Washington say that more strain, sacrifice and hard decisions lie ahead for the economy...