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Word: levelism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first of Dubćek's allies to make amends with pro-Moscow conservatives after the invasion, was ordered by the Central Committee to form a new government. Its membership, announced this week, reflected the hardliners' virtually total control. The purge extended to the local political level; the Prague city party committee was stripped of every remaining Dubćek loyalist. Five more liberals "resigned" from the Czech National Council, and the parliamentary immunity of a sixth, Rudolph Vattek, was lifted, apparently to open the way for his trial for "attacking the policy of the socialist state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Czechoslovakia: Closer to Normal | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...serpents writhe into the moonlight, sleepily. One may identify with her, or them, but either way one finds Rousseau's image pasted permanently to the back of one's brainpan. Those serpents keep on slithering through the jungle of one's own nerve endings, while that level flute pours silence drawn from striped pools. Gilbert Stuart's Flautist is a man cut off from that silence, from wife and children, village, home. He sits soulnaked, haltered in other men's finery. Stuart, the master ironist who gave us a grandmotherly George Washington, here portrays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: SECRET AND LOST | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...headed toward each other at 30 seconds, a flashing red light warns the pilots to prepare for evasive action. Five seconds later, the computers issue their final command. Depending on the relative positions of their planes, one pilot may be ordered to climb, the other to dive or stay level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Avoiding Collisions | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

Beyond economics, there is the question of the sonic boom, which can vary in decibel level from a shot to a 50-mile wide swath of thunderous sound, and would annoy groundlings, to say the least. Transportation Secretary Volpe last week promised that the SST will fly supersonically only over water, at least until the sonic boom is brought within "acceptable limits." Three countries-Sweden, Ireland and West Germany-have already banned SSTs over their territory. The FAA calculates that if all restrictions on supersonic flight were removed, the eventual market would jump from 500 SSTs to 1,200, adding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The SST: Riding A Technological Tiger | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

AUTOMAKERS are perennially optimistic, and this year is no exception. Despite signs of ebbing consumer confidence and new models that are relatively unchanged, they predict that sales of U.S. and imported cars in the 1970-model year will come close to the 9,600,000-unit level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: The Thunking Man's Car | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

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