Word: levels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American film was discovered by the French, who see things in U.S. movies no one else saw before. The directors who created France's New Wave openly imitated such films from the American past as the westerns of John Ford, the adventure flicks of Howard Hawks, and B-level gangster fray-for-alls of the '30s, like Scarface. French critics who have seen Bonnie and Clyde praised it enthusiastically-an American movie that started out as a film for a French director whose best works were echoes of American movies...
...time has wrought on the building indignities that Wright never foresaw. The ingenious, cantilevered foundations, which he designed to support the building on the gooey soil beneath it, proved trim enough to see the Imperial through the 1923 earthquake. But in the past four decades, as the water level has fallen, the structure has settled 3 ft. 7 in. Cracks have appeared in walls and ceilings, and postwar smog has corroded the soft green lava rock used by Wright for the building's fantastic ornamentation. Concluded one recent visitor, Novelist Anthony West: the hotel is now "hideous, inconvenient, inadequate...
Like other supporting proposals for a negative income tax, Miller envisions using tax revenues to assure impoverished families of part of the amount by which their income falls below a certain level. Under one proposal, a family paying no income tax (for example, a family of four with income of less than $3,000) would receive payments equal to the exemptions and deductions it would be credited with if it were in a tax-paying bracket. As Miller sees it, a householder with no income whatsoever "would receive a basic allowance related to the size and composition of the family...
...Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will hold hearings on job discrimination in New York, where Negroes represent 18.2% of the population but only hold 6.3% of white-collar jobs and are a meager 1.8% of the "managerial class." Even those in managerial jobs in most areas are usually lower-level executives. "If I let big business here poke me in the eye once for every Negro vice president it has," says a Los Angeles civil rights worker, "I'd never have to blink...
...problem is the distressingly small number of Negroes with the competence-education, skill and drive-to hold executive positions. Even college graduates are more often trained in such professions as law or medicine than in science or business administration. Banks complain that they no sooner groom Negroes for higher-level jobs than higher-paying companies lure them away...