Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uninhabitable by the year 2000," says Biologist Jacob Zug-man. Along with the city's growing air-and water-pollution problems, he says, "the city noises are assaulting our sanity." Studies show that children (and presumably adults as well) in Sāo Paulo have already lost some acuity of hearing, because as noise increases the ability to hear decreases. Experienced travelers to Rio book rooms in the back of the great hotels that line Copacabana Beach, forsaking the glorious views over the harbor in order to be as far as possible from the amplified autos snarling along Avenida...
...dedicated muckraker who sometimes erred in piecing together an event from details provided by his friends-or even by his enemies out to get someone. He often played favorites (Lyndon Johnson, Wayne Morse), but favoritism was no safeguard against Pearson criticism. Despite the bitterness he provoked, he never lost his sources. "When I call," he said, "people don't know if I've got something on them or am giving them the chance to clear up something-so I get through...
...enthusiastically as he later crusaded against Senator Joseph McCarthy. Over the years, disclosures in Pearson's column sent four Congressmen to jail and led to the resignation of officials from Sherman Adams on down. He accused General MacArthur of lobbying for his own promotion (MacArthur sued and lost) and was the first to report the General George S. Patton slapping incident...
Anderson has lost none of his zeal-and none of his Boy Scout piety. "We get 200 to 300 letters a day from little people who have lost faith in the possibility of seeing justice done through the normal processes," he says. And he vows "to keep the column what Drew made it-a voice for the voiceless...
...Thus when the First State Bank of Aransas Pass (pop. 8,000) failed to open last week, the F.D.I.C. moved in with what by now has become a familiar operation to many Texans. The bank had speculated in land adjoining the site of a planned metallurgical plant, and lost heavily when the plant did not materialize. The price of failure was borne by First State's shareholders, who do not enjoy any Government protection and who suddenly found their $860,000 of shares worth nothing. The F.D.I.C. sold the bank's remaining assets under sealed bids, and this...