Word: fractionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hong Kong, a capitalist balcony dangling on the outer wall of Red China, has become the world's largest and most varied supermarket. In this customs-free and refugee-packed enclave, Chinese merchants flourish, and practically anything-Japanese pearls, French perfumes, mandarin furniture-sells for a fraction of what it costs elsewhere. "If you live here," says a Western resident of the British crown colony of Hong Kong, "you're always broke because there are so many things you can't afford not to buy." The casual traveler can order eight best-quality English worsted suits...
...followed him in Pied Piper numbers-and many of the faces were new. A lively turnout of 4,000 flowed into Milwaukee's Schroeder Hotel one afternoon to look the shockheaded Easterner over and to shake his hand. Said an awed politician: "I didn't recognize a fraction of them, and I know most of the Democrats in the district." Added a leading Democrat: "If you were to limit this election to habitual Democrats, Humphrey would probably win. But all the fringe interest has been with Kennedy; the glamour, the hard campaigning by the family, have brought...
...whose primary military assignment is to move soldiers and supplies to distant battlefields and trouble spots. Because MATS does not fire missiles or drop bombs, and because its main chore is to move and service ground forces, it has become a sort of stepchild, limps along on a small fraction of the Air Force's $18 billion budget...
When his postwar rayon market faded as low-priced nylon came out and consumer tastes shifted, he bought his way into cottons and nylon hosiery. From 1952 to 1958 Love bought 18 key companies-often for a mere fraction of their real values. Last week, eying a new market, he was close to closing a deal to buy a major maker of carpets...
...commuter pays only a fraction of the cost," says the Central's Main, "and he doesn't see why he should pay more." But the commuter may soon have to change his thinking. The longer he resists fare hikes, the worse his lot may become...