Word: interests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sweden, parade censors, outlawing banners "not in the interest of the working man," refused admittance to one reading "Crush Capitalism." However, they let another go by reading "Abolish Sweden." In divided Berlin, fog and rain kept most Berliners at home watching competing parades on TV. There were four in all, divided between West and East Berlin. In its typical out-of-step-with-the-times fashion, East Berlin held an old-fashioned military march-past. In Hamburg, Foreign Minister Willy Brandt was heckled by students and greeted with "Sieg Heil!" salutes...
...back in Cambridge after three years as Under Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Wood says: "It was a sobering but not a corrupting experience. The alternative in a big, complex society is to let the programs and policies be formulated by intuition, by interest groups, by the feelings of politicians who are too busy to focus much attention on the problems...
Against Usury. In part, this innocence of money matters is due to Islam's ancient strictures against usury. Although these prohibitions have not interfered with the prosperity of Lebanese bankers or Arab oil sheiks, many Moslems still feel duty-bound to refuse interest payments; they reject the idea of borrowing money and refrain from other business practices that might violate the precepts of the Koran. At the heart of such caution is a conviction that one of a Moslem's basic duties in life is not to compete with his fellow man but to prepare for his entry...
...race for ratings would seem to be a matter of interest only within the industry. Yet each spring Americans await the final results in much the same way that they await the results of an election: as participants, they want to see which entries they have made the favorites. This season, for the 14th time in as many years, CBS held a slim numerical edge. CBS, by its own calculations (Nielsen ranks shows, not networks), won 20.3% of the audience...
Send Pusey to the United Fund and von Stade back to his stable. Traditionally the Yard has been a cow pasture, not a pig pen, a circumstance which may be of interest to Harvard's legions of traditionalists...