Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Political Gap. Constantine, despite his legendary name, is not King of an ancient Greece, inheritor of the land of Minos and Alexander the Great. His is a new nation, almost 140 years old, that is still healing its wounds after centuries of foreign invasion and occupation, slavery and civil war that left the land and the people weak, drained of resources and with only their spirit for consolation. That spirit is at the heart of the present trouble, for Greece today has not retained much of its ancient legacy of moderation and temperance. The Greeks are a volatile, hotheaded...
...home, nonetheless, the monarchy has recently come under increasing attack by many Greeks who question its relevance to the task of solving Greece's deep problems. The criticism has intensified as the political gap between the King and the Papandreous has widened. The King himself is protected from excessive public criticism by the penal code, but members of the royal family who were not protected by this law have come under heavy fire from the press...
...land of the mod and the miniskirt is also the home of the mini-growth economy. Last summer, faced with mounting international debts, a critical gap between rising imports and diminishing exports, and growing skepticism about the value of the pound sterling, Britain's Labor government put the nation on a deflationary diet. Wages, profits and dividends were frozen; taxes were pegged high to dampen spending, and even a slight rise in unemployment was tolerated by a Labor Party that had always stood for full employment. Saddled with such restraints, Britons quickly became uncommonly economy-conscious. And they listened...
Stay-at-Home Vacations. For all the gains that Callaghan proudly pointed to, Britain is not yet clear of some economic shoals. The government still owes another $1.4 billion to the IMF, which will come due in 1970. The trade gap is far from permanently closed. And lately it has begun to widen, largely because the U.S., on whom Britain depends to absorb its stepped-up exports, has problems of its own and is buying less. Unemployment, while leveling off some, is still 2%; the Selective Employment Tax that was supposed to force workers out of service jobs into manufacturing...
...subtleties of agreement, as well as disagreement among Negro leaders. On "Meet the press," for the benefit of the mass media, they may heatedly disagree. But there is at least one objective they all have in common -- the well-being of the American Negro. The "generational gap," as the cliche has it, is considerably less than tremendous...