Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...treated one large group of citizens with curious neglect. Over the years, five major groups have been added to the voting ranks: the landless (under the Constitution), Negroes (1870), women (1920), Washingtonians (1961) and refugees from the poll tax (1964). Yet America, a nation obsessed with youth, with nearly half its population under 25, does not let a citizen vote until he is 21.* An 18-year-old can be drafted, and he can be held fully responsible before the law, can even be given the death penalty in some states, but he cannot cast a ballot except in Kentucky...
...scarcely half a year later, the U.S. Marines were out of the base.* Amid occasional incoming shellbursts, bulldozers clattered across the base last week, filling the red clay scars that trenches had cut into the once verdant plateau, burying the hulks of crippled aircraft, Jeeps and trucks. Dust-caked Marines stacked up the aluminum matting that had formed Khe Sanh's 4,000-ft. runway, during the siege, its only link to the outside. Demolition men destroyed bunker after bunker, the single bit of protection against the rain of North Vietnamese steel that had lashed the base for almost...
...slashed and six of them trussed, their arms and legs roped to their necks. The Pearl's cargo confirmed, in dramatic fashion, reports from the mainland by travelers, press and radio that the worst factional fighting in a year is spreading throughout much of China, particularly its southern half...
...cause of the current unrest is the government's arid educational policy and the rough police treatment of students protesting it. In the past three years, education's share of the national budget has dropped from 11% to 7.7% and the number of illiterate, already half the total population of 85,655,000, has slightly increased. Overcrowded Rio universities are now forced to turn away two out of three qualified applicants...
...tests to determine whether she should undergo open-heart surgery. While glucose was being administered to The Bronx woman, the bottle ran dry. As a result, air bubbles were fed into her bloodstream, causing her heart to stop. Doctors revived the seemingly lifeless patient after a minute and a half, but she was left almost totally blind and suffered a severe speech impairment. After eight years, her suit against the city finally got to court; after three days of trial, Miss Triano, 33, accepted a $250,000 out-of-court settlement...