Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speed and efficient routing, vertical and horizontal conveyor belts will move materials through various departments. The lowest office floor, 87 ft. above wide granite walks, will rest on a base pierced by arcades, which lead into a three-level lobby where a TIME-LIFE library and a gallery and exhibition center will be open to the public. The building, scheduled for partial completion and occupancy next year, adheres to Louis Sullivan's principle that architectural form should follow human function. In a broader sense, the building is designed not only for our Subscription Services staff but for the needs...
...been in frequent touch with North Vietnamese officials and could be reached at any time. So, too, could embassy personnel in Moscow, who also have had dealings with the North Vietnamese. Chester Bowles's visit to Pnompenh this week gives the North another opportunity for a high-level contact. If Hanoi does not want to confer directly with Washington, President Johnson has made it clear that he would favor informal talks between the N.L.F. and South Viet Nam. "The war can be stopped in a matter of days," Johnson has said-if talks start in earnest...
...cars and chauffeurs attached to government agencies and factories are a nagging reminder to more austere party men that their Communist "utopia" is far from classless. In fact, the party press has reported that, proportionately, more middle-level executives are entitled to chauffeur-driven cars in Socialist countries than in the West. Government ministers and factory managers in each of the East European countries fight constantly to enlarge their own pool of cars. They ride in everything from Fiat 600s to Russian Moskvichi, but favor the big and prestigious German Mercedes...
Even in Mississippi, with 42 per cent of the population Negro and a dozen counties capable of electing Negro officials, fair elections would not necessarily result in any Negroes on the delegation. It is selected by a statewide convention whose delegates are in turn chosen at the county level. Negroes could not possibly gain a majority of the state's 82 counties...
Following the precedent of Winthrop House, which now offers three General Education courses, Lowell House tutors will offer a lower level Humanities course this spring entitled Humanities 10, "The Modern Sensibility...