Word: janning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...animals sick, several of them fatally. In Los Angeles, automobiles spew out almost 80% of the smog-producing hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides, and the afterburners now being compulsorily installed on California cars cannot do the whole job of cleaning up the city's air, said Dr. Arie Jan Haagen-Smit. If Angelenos want real relief, he said, they must have better, and preferably electric, public transportation, fewer commuters, smoother-flowing traffic, and cars that burn less fuel...
Last week he decreed that, beginning Jan. 1, Paris churches will offer only one class of funeral and one class of wedding-and all for free. "For many people, we are men of money," said the cardinal...
...deep a cut and how serious a reform there should be. But the Administration has, in fact, tried out a two-step tax package on House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills. The plan calls for a big tax cut, in Step i. to be retroactive to Jan. 1, 1963. The second step, to be effective one year later, would include a further cut and overall tax reforms. Both steps would have to be approved in one bill, thus preventing Congress from approving a tax cut and then ignoring tax reform...
Squatters and Stampedes. In the slender roster of modern American greats, Scott Fitzgerald was once the property of Arthur Mizener, who helped bring his writings to a new prominence (TIME, Jan. 29, 1951). But Fitzgerald is now a contested figure, suspended between Mizener and Andrew Turnbull, author of the recent biographical bestseller (TIME, March 30). Several critics are even now trying to assert squatters' rights in the late William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, but what will become of their rivalry nobody is likely to know for years. Hemingway had no one dominant fan in life. After his death...
Mobile Start. Joan Baez (she pronounces it By-ezz) was born on Staten Island. Jan. 9. 1941. But both her parents were foreign-born. Her mother was English-Scottish, the daughter of an Episcopal minister...