Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British entry. Continental businessmen want a crack at the 55 million potential customers in Britain; the European public would like to line up with such a swinging partner; and even Germany's most outspoken Gaullist, Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss, now feels that British admission is necessary to help Europe narrow the technology gap with...
...Call for Help. Guerrero averages more than 200 murders a month, 60 in Acapulco alone. Last November, when a new bride refused to dance with one of her wedding guests in Tunas, guns came out and eleven persons were killed. A few weeks later, in a cemetery near Acapulco, another murder victim was no sooner in the ground than guns started blazing among the mourners; two people were killed. Six more died recently after a shoot-out over a land dispute. The incident that finally brought the arms crackdown came last month when two rival union factions shot...
Acapulco's squalid, crumbling jail is so overcrowded that local authorities fear a breakout, have called in the army to help keep an eye on the city's 519 prisoners. Northern hippies who came south for Acapulco gold (maximum penalty for possession: six years) were jammed in with hardened characters like Félix Radilla, wanted for 85 murders, and Constáncio ("Black Animal") Hernández García, whose gang gunned down 18 soldiers a few months ago. The prisoners pay a price for everything: a cot to sleep on, half-decent food...
L.B.J. introduced him to White House reporters. "No one," said Johnson, "has done more to help us work with our economy" than Leslie T. Hope, 64, a wealthy, California-based cosmopolite whose unpaid avocation is promoting U.S. Government bonds. In a curiously disjointed response, the salesman touched on Shirley Temple Black's campaign for Congress ("Ev Dirksen is the only one who complains that one set of curls in Congress is enough"), gave informal confirmation to suspicions that he is a White House intimate. "Lynda looked just marvelous," said Hope, nicknamed Bob, "and I'm sure...
Despite their rivalry, both organizations seemed to interpret the mood of U.S. teachers in similar terms. "We have a new type of more aggressive, more alert teacher all over this nation who wants to help determine the policies that affect him," declared N.E.A. President Braulio Alonso. "This is the beginning of a real revolution in the teaching profession." Teachers, echoed Albert Shanker, president of New York's United Federation of Teachers, a local of the A.F.T., "have to have power-this is a revolutionary change...