Word: levelers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...High-level Whispers. The Soviet arms budget is, however, undeniably under pressure, because the Soviet civilian economy has been badly shortchanged as a result of Russia's costly military intervention in Czechoslovakia and the buildup along the Chinese border. Moscow urgently needs to increase its investment in agriculture, which suffered heavily this year as severe weather snapped a string of good harvests. Western experts scoff that some of the 160 million-ton grain crop the Soviets are claiming to harvest "must still be under the snow...
Freddie fled into exile and died last month in London. The cause of death, said the coroner's report, was an extremely high level of alcohol in his bloodstream. The Kabaka's followers claimed he had been poisoned by Obote's agents and swore revenge. Outside the stadium last week police seized a man who was thought to be one of the Kabaka's followers...
...conglomerate seminary has obvious practical benefits. Libraries are better. Snared facilities raise teaching standards while keeping individual seminary costs at a bearable level. Cross-registration affords each student the chance to pursue his own curriculum under the best available teachers. The interaction of the diverse groups also contributes dramatically to future changes in the church. President John Dillenberger of G.T.U. even hopes that local parishes will tie in to the cluster and participate directly in this transformation...
...system. The Nixon Administration this year asked Congress to provide a minimum income for every American, though not quite in the way that he advocates. Friedman would abolish most other types of aid to the poor and substitute the income guarantee. It would provide direct cash grants that poverty-level families could spend any way they pleased. He argues that most current programs to help the poor either wind up aiding the better-off instead or place humiliating restrictions on what the poor can do with the money they...
...likes two girls at once and "always takes his clothes off when he eats"-not to mention Roz the Meter Maid, Tony the Indian, Joe the Wop, Beppo the Dwarf and a lion with body odor. Yet the book is funny, particularly on the sadistic Tom-and-Jerry cartoon level of violence, because the characters aren't real and nothing is really at stake but a few laughs...