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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majority of the officers feel that the armies need ail the strength they can get. Though Fidel Castro is not their idol, South American youths, who represent by far the fastest-growing segment of the population, are swinging ever more to the left. The officers, who mostly embody conservative, lower-middle-class views, hope to arrest that movement with tough government action. They are also thoroughly disgusted with civilian politicians, who have failed to cope with the urgent problems of their countries. Trained in their own staff col leges or U.S. military schools, the officers, especially the younger ones, feel...
Britain's House of Lords was debating a knotty problem: whether or not to lower from 21 to 18 the age at which a man may marry without parental consent. Finally, up stepped that superfeminist and onetime minister under Clement Attlee, Lady Summerskill, 67, to oppose the measure and put the issue in perspective: "Although your lordships know that I try to promote the interests of my sex frequently in this House, on this occasion I am biased in favor of the boy. I know the power of my sex when they are young. One has only to look...
...fortunes declined at Cothen after Prince Leopold married an unmusical wife. In a monumental miscalculation, Bach accepted the post of choirmaster at Leipzig's St. Thomas Church. The salary and social status were lower, the living conditions drearier, and the duties more onerous. Besides being responsible for the music in two Leipzig churches, Bach had minor chores at two others, even had to teach catechism and act as proctor to choirboys. His family obligations were increasing too. After the death of Barbara, he had married a professional singer named Anna Magdalena Wilcken in 1721; she became stepmother...
...Examiner vending machines. In all, circulation dropped from 730,000 to 540,000, at a cost to Hearst of about $2,000,000. Advertisements for the year slipped about 7,000,000 lines behind the year before, a loss of at least $7,000,000. Hearst was forced to lower his ad rates, probably losing another $7,000,000. But by cutting its staff from 2,200 employees to 1,200, the paper saved about $4,000,000. The net loss, after adding the cost of vandalism, severance pay and guards' salaries, was about $15 million. Since the Herald...
...jobs only two days a week and therefore qualify for strike benefits, which have cost the unions $10,000 a week (pressmen get a minimum of $25 a week, printers and mailers $103). The other 400 have taken full-time jobs, many at smaller newspapers, where pay is often lower than at the Herald-Examiner. Affected families display signs in their home windows: HEARST HURTS THIS HOUSEHOLD...