Word: generalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have four times brought the Met to the brink of disaster. In 1961 its opening was ensured at the last moment deus ex machina (when President Kennedy intervened). But this time, New Yorkers were realizing with shock, there might be no opening at all. Worried, tired and gaunt, Met General Manager Rudolf Bing told TIME, "We don't know where to go. It is now a matter of life and death...
...Angeles Philharmonic and a regular conductor at the Met, last week scornfully characterized the negotiations as an "Oriental-bazaar style of bargaining." Bing speaks openly of the "sheer demagoguery" of his adversaries, and is furious that they don't take pity on the Met's general economic plight. They, in turn, blame management for locking them out of summer rehearsals and blocking their claims for unemployment benefits while contracts are being negotiated...
...supply of marijuana at its source, we will drive prices sky-high and effectively take it out of the hands of 90% of the kids," says Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst. Last year alone, U.S. officials estimate, 1,200 tons of marijuana were brought across the Mexican line. Only 70,210 Ibs. were detected. Also, the border leaked 20% of the heroin used in the U.S., refined from Mexican Amapola, the poppy, and an unknown amount of U.S.-made drugs such as amphetamines, which can be bought without prescription in Mexico...
...Robert E. Lee doubts that a cause-and-effect relationship can be scientifically established. "I kind of doubt the experts will find a connection," he says, though "once in a while you may find an isolated incident." Meanwhile the networks are planning their own investigations, and the U.S. Surgeon General's office is well into a report of its own. All the research may prove to be the best offering of the 1969 television season...
...plans for hiring Negroes in order to qualify to bid on federal construction projects. George Meany and many contractors argue that the "Philadelphia Plan" amounts to a racial-quota system barred by the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In response to an inquiry from Arkansas Senator John McClellan, U.S. Comptroller General Elmer Staats recently held that the plan is illegal. The Labor Department, backed by a contrary opinion from Attorney General John Mitchell, is pushing ahead anyway. It expects to extend the plan to federal projects in Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh and other cities...