Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearest hitching post, much as the students strike at the universities when that is really not what they're mad at." The staggering cost of modern armament is a further cause of discontent, Wheeler says. "An ICBM is at least a million dollars a throw; a nuclear carrier, half a billion, an ABM system, $7 billion. And it is all blamed on the military, because at first glance our weapons and our uniforms are easily identified...
...Almost half of the 130 stores that once lined the city's main shopping streets are gone. So much business has fled the community that city hall is now the third largest employer, public schools the fourth. More than half of the city's families live on less than $3,000 a year; 21% of the labor force is unemployed. One-fourth of the 82,000 residents receive some kind of public assistance. Relations between the city's 38,000 whites and its 44,000 Negroes are abrasive at best. Though little organized vice survives...
...creditors by taking advantage of an Illinois law that permits it to float bonds without public consent. This kind of Micawberism has driven the city so deep into the red that debt service accounted for 35% of 1967's property-tax revenues and threatens to devour more than half...
...Navaho likes none of those places. White men's creations, they separate children from their families and tribal traditions, are largely inadequate, and have succeeded mainly in teaching young Indians to feel like second-class citizens. As one result, Indians have the country's highest illiteracy rate. Half of them do not complete high school; 40% are unemployed...
...last week concluded a three-week guest engagement with the Chicago Symphony prior to the formal takeover in September. His final concert-devoted entirely to Mahler's Second Symphony-demonstrated the kind of technical brilliance and interpretive sagacity that have made him one of the world's half-dozen best conductors. The audience gave Solti one of the biggest ovations ever witnessed at Orchestra Hall. Although he has the natural rhythm of a dancer, his performances tend to be chaste and severe rather than fiery or sentimental, with the emphasis on outlining the architectural structure of a work...