Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After more than half a century of prosperity and welfare-statism, South America's smallest republic had grown increasingly noncompetitive in world markets with its two main exports: beef and wool. State-owned enterprises, which employ a quarter of the labor force, had grown to what Pacheco calls a "three-bodies-for-every-job bureaucracy." Pensions, which working mothers, for example, can start collecting after ten years on the job, had become a way of life. Huge, Communist-backed unions were constantly on strike...
Going into the season's second half, eleven of the 20 big-league clubs are in the throes of attendance slumps. Ticket sales are 50,000 off last year's mid-season mark in Houston, 126,998 in Pittsburgh, 245,592 in Atlanta. In San Francisco, paid admissions are already down 277,182 from 1967-a season that was also disastrous at the box office. Total big-league attendance is off almost 6% this year. And it would be far worse except for Detroit, where the Tigers, driving toward their first American League pennant in 23 years, have...
...found objects, that brood like so many legendary rocs amid the gardens of the Maeght Foundation. One of his most recent sculptures is the massive marble Moonbird, who, in Miró's language, is meant to suggest not only moon and bird but also woman. Moonbird summons up half-forgotten racial memories of fertility-cult objects, altars, Astarte and menhirs. In so doing it suggests the deeper roots of Joan Miró's art. Through dream symbols and childish cartoons, through the very innocence of his spontaneous line, he poetically evokes the rhythms and the harmony...
...Hour Shifts. On July 3, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, which embraces half the U.S.'s. 14,500 controllers and hires Lawyer-Pilot F. Lee Bailey as general counsel, announced that it would start playing everything by the book-a set of rules that controllers often ignore. By spacing planes four miles apart instead of the usual three, the controllers managed to slow traffic by 30%. Because private planes use up only half a runway, controllers usually allow them to land simultaneously with a jet on intersecting runways, a practice forbidden by the FAA. The old rule went...
...radar screens show up so indistinctly that one controller literally died of fright. Says Michael Rock, chairman of PATCO: "It seems ridiculous that NASA can track a needle and we can't even make out two giant jets if they are closer than a mile and a half...