Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sometimes sloppy in his tactics. Last week he admitted that 20 Senate employees working for himself and Brother Teddy on the U.S. payroll are engaged in campaign activities. Too often he allows his staffers to reinforce the image of ruthlessness, as when one Kennedy operative phoned a middle-level Washington official and demanded campaign assistance. "I'll be happy to do everything I can after the convention," said the official, an appointee committed to serving the President for the moment. Snapped the Kennedy aide: "After the convention we won't need you, buster...
Tourism fell 14% in 1967, and is off badly this year. The construction trade, Greece's second biggest industry after agriculture, has experienced a slump. Foreign investment has declined some 30% below the 1966 level...
...sunny nature. Yet the onrushing sexual revolution may have passed him by. For frantic sex Avant-Garde is miles behind Evergreen (TIME, March 29) and not far ahead of Cosmopolitan. But Ginzburg protests that Evergreen's sex is "somewhat excremental," while Avant-Garde is pitched at the "genital level. Sexy, yes. Dirty, no." To prove his point, he says that forthcoming issues will carry an eight-page super-fold-out of a life-sized woman, as well as details on a private collection of pubic hairs garnered from celebrities...
Along the so-called "high energy" beaches, where the water is turbulent and the currents swift, the offshore sand level can rise and fall as much as 4 ft. in half a day. Most beaches are subject to extremely heavy erosion during winter storms, then are rebuilt by sand-bearing currents during the summer. But, says Joseph Caldwell, head of the Beach Erosion Board of the Army Corps of Engineers, "the beaches generally wash out more each winter than they get built back each summer...
...that the sea each year claims more than it gives. Ever since the end of the last ice age-when the grinding action of glaciers against rocks created much of the world's present sand-the oceans have been steadily rising. Fed by slowly melting ice, the level of the seas is now 300 ft. above what it was 18,000 years ago, and is still creeping up at something like 9 in. a century. If man is to keep his beloved beaches, he will have to continue the costly process of reclaiming sand from the sea-until another...