Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than 1,000,000 people -more than half of them schoolchildren-lined his 17-mile motorcade route, strewing it with thousands of chrysanthemums and a ton and a half of confetti. A forest of welcoming signs rose above their heads, many bearing bizarre, if well-intended, portraits of a green-faced, Oriental-eyed Lyndon Johnson with an outsized nose like Charles de Gaulle's. The slogans were on the inscrutable side. WELCOME TEXAS GRANDPA, said one. Another somewhat ambiguously proclaimed: TEXAS
...Wretched human beings, whether you wear green robes, turbans, black robes or surplices, cloaks and clerical bands, never seek to use authority where it is only a question of reason...
Soon even Moscow - in the voice of Evsei Liberman - was talking of "in centives" and the "profit motive," a green light to the East bloc that soon set Hungary, Bulgaria and even the Stalinist states of East Germany and Czechoslovakia to thinking about reform. Out of earshot of the West, economists began discussing things that the West would understand: bonuses and reinvestment, free prices and the need for incentives, even the accumulation of wealth-once a heretical thought under "egalitarian" Communism. Quite independently of one another, the prophets of profit began coming to the same conclusion: rigid Stalinist-style central...
S.E.C. coaches admit that their athletic scholarship policies are the most liberal in the country. "A good football player," says Vanderbilt Coach Jack Green, "is a precious commodity-and we know it." Not that S.E.C. schools pay more; they offer the usual free ride: room, board, tuition and textbooks, plus $10 per month "laundry money." They just spend more. Alabama, for instance, awards 120 football scholarships a year compared with a maximum of 35 for Notre Dame. Even Vanderbilt, a perennial conference doormat-partly because it is the only S.E.C. university that does not offer majors in either "recreation...
Also quite possible, in the likely event that Penn can't handle the Big Green, is a five-way tie for first. Yale would have to beat both Harvard and Princeton, but there is at least a five per cent possibility of that...