Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DISCOVERY '67 (ABC, ll:30-noon). "Discovery Visits New York," Part 1, to explore Manhattan's Lower East Side, Washington Square, Chinatown, the Central Park Zoo and Yorkville through the eyes of the city's children...
...this is Wright's theme, as it was the theme of the July 1966 meeting of the National Council of Negro Churchmen from which the Times advertisement was generated. It points toward a new form of communication between the masses--these churchmen are members of the lower middle and working classes, not the middle class--and those portions of larger society which can appreciate a "protest" movement that utilizes hard-nosed logic (and methods) and proposes intelligent programmatic action. It is perhaps unnecessary to say that this does not always include the "liberal" community...
Known as the Keeton-O'Connell Basic Protection Plan, the scheme promises easier pay-offs and lower insurance rates. If the Senate passes the bill, Massachusetts drivers who are involved in auto accidents will receive compensation from their own insurance companies, and not from the company which has insured the negligent driver. A driver's guilt or innocence in an accident will, heretofore, no longer have any bearing on whether he receives compensation for injuries...
...Output per breeding animal has doubled. In the 1960s alone, productivity of the average farm worker has increased by 6% a year v. only 3% for other workers. Total farm production, the Agriculture Department estimated last week, will set a new record this year (one result being lower grain prices on the nation's commodities market). With the average farm laborer producing enough food and fiber for 39 people, the American farmer not only overfeeds and overclothes the U.S. but holds out the vision that expanding technology can eliminate the threat of famine in underdeveloped lands as well...
Despite this, by reducing tariffs 50 per cent on some imports, the U.S. negotiating team has incurred the protests of powerful industries which feel the lower tariffs will bring disastrously stiff competition. The strongest reaction to the Round has come from the thriving chemical industry. At the negotiations, the American team made a tentative agreement, subject to approval of Congress, to eliminate the American Selling Price (ASP) method of evaluating certain chemicals (mostly dyes and pigments). The chemical industry considers this a life-and-death matter and is feverishly lobbying to defeat the legislation to repeal...