Word: iii
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year to $6,000. Armed guards are giving way to a higher proportion of specialists in remedial reading and vocational training. Overcrowding has ended with 14 new institutions, including camps and reformatories. Last year Bennett closed grim, antique Alcatraz, replacing it with a far more efficient installation in Marion, III., which embodies the best in prison architecture, a subject on which Bennett has written the only available book...
...compact companies also have special problems, are more vulnerable to competitive setbacks than their big brothers. Like many other small firms, Northwestern Steel and Wire of Sterling, III., is feeling a profit pinch because scrap prices have jumped sharply in the past few months. A surge of imports of barbed wire and nails has hurt Peoria's Keystone Steel, which specializes in those products. Some small steelmen complain that they have difficulty borrowing to expand and modernize, since bankers tend to favor the larger firms. But the small ones often manage to be more daring than the conservative giants...
Aunt Effie. For nearly six years of her life, Lady Bird lived in the crosscurrents between the occult but enlightened aristocracy of her mother and the shrewd dollar-sign language of her father; her two brothers, Tony and Tom III (the latter died in 1959), were both much older and were away at school. Then in 1918 Minnie Lee Taylor fell down the length of the circular staircase in the old brick house and died-and Lady Bird was left with Cap Taylor...
...time, no one grasped what had happened on that September day in 1781. George III called it "a drawn battle." To Rear Admiral Thomas Graves, who flubbed the encounter, it was "a lively skirmish"; to his second in command, Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Hood, "a feeble action"; to George Washington, its greatest beneficiary, "a partial engagement." There is not even agreement on its name. Says Author Larrabee: "You will find it called the Battle of the Chesapeake, of Chesapeake Bay, of Lynnhaven Bay, of Cape Henry, and of the Capes of Virginia." To this day not many Americans have heard...
...implicit in the Stamp Act: the British Parliament wanted more power over the colonies than the colonies were willing to allow. But later historians were not content with this sensible explanation. George Bancroft turned the war into a moral crusade for freedom and made poor old bumbling George III a sinister villain. Arthur Schlesinger Sr. saw the war as a class struggle in which colonial merchants were pitted against colonial proletariat. Then, in the 1950s, Edmund and Helen Morgan astonished the historical community by declaring that resistance to the Stamp Act was, after all, the cause of the war. Historical...