Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wisconsin, which pitted bayonet-wielding National Guard troops against students, was called off while faculty members considered various reforms. Toward the end, as few as 300 students continued the strike, compared with 7,000 strikers during the Guard's initial invasion. At Howard University in Washington, black law students quietly heeded a federal judge's order to end their lock-in, called to obtain more voice in administrative decisions. The student lawyers planned to go on boycotting classes, but not to flout the law they study...
...favor foreign investment." Nor are they pleased by Peru's threat to charge the U.S. before the Organization of American States with "economic aggression" (the countercharge, quite properly, will be that the U.S. is willing to accept expropriation if need be but insists that Peru observe international law and make repayment). Yet, in a showdown, most would probably side with Peru because of the sad state of U.S.-Latin American relations, in spite of huge U.S. private investment. Once, other nations in the hemisphere could command U.S. attention by pointing to the threat of Castro subversion. Now, however, Cuban...
Adaptation. The Skid Rower's steady collision with the law-mostly involving repeated arrests for drunkenness or vagrancy-is misleading. He is peaceful to the point of passivity. Most of Skid Row's crime statistics are due either to zealous police sweeping public drunks off the pavement, or to "hawks"-the area's name for predators who come in from the outside, frequently to relieve a drunkard of his freshly cashed welfare check. His lengthy arrest record, says Sociologist Wallace, can actually be construed as "a fairly stable adaptation [to] a society that is willing to support...
...booze. "I used to drink until it was lights out and you'd wake up in the morning with large holes in the night before." He could justify that in a column: "You've got to understand the drink. In a world where there is a law against people ever showing emotions, or ever releasing themselves from the greyness of their days, a drink is not a social tool. It is a thing you need in order to live." But a doctor has told Breslin otherwise-that he's a sitting duck for a heart attack...
...month signed a contract with Las Vegas' new International Hotel that gives her an estimated $500,000 (plus stock in the hotel) for four weeks work a year. Harvard Business School graduates now begin their working lives at an average $12,000 a year. At leading Wall Street law firms, starting salaries for newly recruited lawyers, which ran about $7,500 a decade ago, now stand at $15,000 and are likely to go higher. Today the long-impecunious college professors average $18,000, and in private universities $21,000. Many supplement their base pay with consulting jobs...