Word: happens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your Aug. 18 tribute to Bus Mosbacher is long overdue, for he has clearly established his right to the place that Cornelius Shields was forced to vacate after a near-fatal heart attack. The 1958 campaign must stand as Bus's finest season, despite what might happen this fall, for only against great adversity is a man truly tested. Bus did something to Vim and her crew that is rare in the annals of yachting. He took a boat that was hopelessly outclassed by 19 years of technological advances in the field of hull design and breathed a life...
...four troubled nights constituted only a miniriot. Not a shot was fired, no one was seriously injured, and damage was probably not more than $1,000,000. But the psychological damage was immense. "I seriously thought," said a shaken Mayor Richard Lee, "that something like this wouldn't happen here." Yet happen it did, and officials across the country, shuddering at the prospects for their own cities, could only wonder why. The reasons were not all that obscure. Much had been done, but much more remained to be done...
Pooling the Risk. There is some recent history to indicate what will happen after the 90 days. In the two years since Los Angeles' Watts riots, which caused about $40 million in insured damage, rates for property coverage in the area have at least doubled; some 1,000 ghetto merchants have complained that they cannot get insurance at all. Watts now has only two major retail stores, one of them a new White Front Inc. department store with fortress-like slits instead of display windows, especially designed to thwart brick throwers. To meet the Los Angeles situation, 108 California...
...national economy, Vietnam and its budgetary demands, and the Congressional attempts to cut his domestic programs. He will not be able to press Congress on reform. For its own part, Congress has a special aversion towards any reform of the tax system; often the financial interests closest to Congressmen happen to be the very beneficiaries of economic distortions and abuses...
...their minor individual concerns, then he is happy and everything will stay calm. But if ever he is forced to act as governor in a more complex situation which he cannot totally understand or control, then he may completely blow. If there were a riot in Atlanta, this could happen...