Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...metals industry and found that 42% of those responding expressed fears about their ability to keep up with advanced technology. The growing pace of mergers has brought on another kind of anxiety known as "conglomerate psychosis." Many chief managers worry about how long there will be a company left for them to manage. Lower executives fret about keeping their jobs after a takeover. Then there is company involvement in urban affairs; executives are expected to participate KAISER MEDICAL OFFICE in community groups at the expense of their free time. Says Dr. L. S. Thompson Jr., a physician who treats executives...
...commuters mostly fly small prop planes, but they owe their development to the jet age. Larger airlines have left the field clear for them in towns and cities where meager traffic will not support the costly big transports. And in many cases, the small carriers have made themselves essential. Rural Spencer, Iowa, found itself so isolated that town officials invited Minnesota's Fleet Airlines to provide regular service to larger cities and happily agreed to make up any losses...
Often bored, the troops were fair game for anyone with political ambitions. In A.D. 196 and again in A.D. 296, the legions left their posts to follow imperial pretenders. Each time the barbarians immediately swept south across the unmanned wall and ravaged towns and villas. Decaying loyalties were also responsible for the third-and last-debacle. Agents called the Arcani, or secret ones (whom Divine identifies as "part of the Roman CIA"), apparently took bribes, conspiring with enemy tribesmen who were forming a broad anti-Roman alliance in Britain. In A.D. 367, the wall fell by assault. This time...
Ahern views Communism and the New Left as vital, realistic dangers. "Communism is still a threat. Do you know what Communism's purpose is? Their theory is to overthrow the government of the U.S. with any means whatever. It would be a difficult thing to do but it's not an impossibility...
Simkin was named director of the Federal Mediation Service by President Kennedy, and served in the post until President Johnson left office last January...