Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second half of the 20th century, the gap be tween wish and denial has often been widened by the very institutions that should provide certainty. Science has bared the mysteries of subatomic particles, and in the process has almost turned into a new metaphysics groping for evidence of things unseen. As organized religion loses its appeal through stuffiness or sterility, people seeking faith increasingly turn to mystical religions, such as Zen and Zoroastrianism...
...first day of business, they certainly did. Within half an hour of opening, police had to be called to control the crowds. By closing time, the new Rive Gauche had grossed $25,000, was out of so many sizes that Paris was cabled to ship more clothes by air. Among the bestsellers: CityPants at $145-$175. Yves was not surprised. Right along, he has predicted the unisex look, "a mix of the two, men and women." If such is the future, he is certainly the avantgarde. At a quick glance, many first-nighters at his Manhattan opening had trouble distinguishing...
...were being caught in fresh-water Lake Michigan by the thousands. And every strike was a battle. The silvery coho salmon are 2 ft. long, weigh 15 Ibs. and more. "They're all different," said Ron Jenkins of Battle Creek, Mich., who had caught three in his first half-hour. "Some will jump; some will go deep. They'll all fight." Said a farmer who had been trying to charter a boat for three months: "I come from muskie country. This is the nearest thing to deep-sea fishing I'll ever...
...Manistee, Mich., where the cohos are running this week on their annual spawning run, the town's 16 hotels and motels are booked solid, and a city ordinance had to be passed to keep trailers and trucks off the streets at night. Charter boats are charging $25 for half a day. This year the local bait shop, Fishermen's Center, which sold $1,300 worth of lures on one recent Saturday, is open 24 hours...
...continued his complaint in his farewell press conference. "I think a good many people have tended to use the space program as a whipping boy," he said. "I thought that we had reached parity with the Russians about two and a half years ago." But the Soviets are proceeding "without letup" while the U.S. effort will have shrunk by mid-1969 to half what it was in the middle 1960s. As a result, Webb predicted, the Russians "will be flying more flights and developing a capability in space at a much more rapid rate than we will for the next...