Word: isn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when all five of his fellow Senators on the joint conference committee opted for the House bill, Kennedy defied tradition by warring on the conference committee report. The Senate backed him, 55 to 22, a notable personal triumph. Yet he made no enemies in the process. "He isn't sneaky," says one of his adversaries. "He isn't a wise...
...case, they decided to judge for themselves. The twelve men (the judge had barred all women) spent two days reading Exit, ultimately agreed with Prosecution Witness George Catlin, a former professor at Canada's McGill University, who said: "I can't imagine anything being obscene if this book isn't." The question that now arises for England is how many other modern works might fail a test by jury...
...Incentives. "Nobody works for Marion who isn't productive," says Kauffman. His salesmen, young and mostly recruited from small colleges, are expected to see 20% more doctors and pharmacists a week than competing salesmen and to increase their sales consistently. Those who pass these tests are rewarded with air-conditioned cars, color television sets, shotguns and longer vacations. Ultimately, the most productive salesmen are admitted to membership in the "M Club." They get an Oldsmobile instead of a Chevrolet or Ford as a company car, take double vacations and stay in hotel suites instead of rooms...
Some students complain of the lack of color and cozy spots. They feel that Andrews' attempt to provide common spaces to meet new people has worked very well, but there just isn't any place in the building where one could be alone with a few close friends...
...lovers lie quietly in the grass; kids running twisting in the crowd; the band plays a slow waltz of the 1890's. On a warm June night 50,000 New Yorkers gather in Central Park to celebrate the good old summertime. "Look at all those people," says the Commissioner. "Isn't it exciting...