Word: inwards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although the average door opens inward, your home would be protected far better if you changed the hinges so that it would open outward. If done, your door could never be kicked...
...Colombo's "mono-home" is multipurpose, can serve to house a TV or to store kitchen utensils. "A bachelor buys some of these pieces for his home," Colombo explains. "He marries and he adds more pieces; he has children and he adds more pieces-it goes upward, sideways, inward and downward." An unexpected guest arrives? Easy, says he: "You just pull out an extra bed, assemble it, and stick it to one of the boxes." In fact, Colombo's design may not even be futuristic any more. An Italian manufacturer plans to put his mono-home into production...
...Hanoi's residents. Each weekend, the routes in and out of Hanoi and Haiphong are jammed with parents headed for the countryside to visit their children, most of whom are encamped there for the duration, and men and women who work on the city's outskirts hurrying inward to visit friends and relatives. But the antiaircraft gunners still keep ready watch, and occasional alerts still sound, triggered by U.S. reconnaissance flights overhead. Hanoi has the mood of a city enjoying an unexpected, slightly eerie-and not quite thoroughly believable-respite...
Remember Stanley? The intense, bright liberal arts major with the thing against business? "I didn't consider business as a probable career," Rubenstein recalls today. "It didn't have any goals. It was inward looking rather than outward looking, and the Peace Corps seemed more exciting than selling shoelaces." The Peace Corps was where Rubenstein went. But then, with a yen for international economics developed during two years in Africa, Stanley returned home to enter New York University's Graduate School of Business Administration. Finishing this October with a master's degree, he hopes to work...
...best path to integration. Negroes, said Perry, have come to the realization that they must find their "manhood" in their own community before they can move successfully into the white. "Thus, while some blacks are moving into white America-and not thereby becoming white, either -others are turning inward to the black ghetto to build their own strength. I find the dual process exciting, healthy and promising...