Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mayhem back to the McLaughlin-McLean contretemps-a falling-out romantically attributed to a slur on one mug's moll-they theorize that other motives have since arisen. Many of the victims made their living as loan sharks. This is big, if disorganized, business in Boston's lower crust. The "vigorish," or profit, is estimated at $1,000,000 a week. With that kind of take, the competition for trade is bound to be keen. As might be expected, the surplus of bodies has been accompanied by a dearth of witnesses and evidence. Just five...
What bothers most such critics is the cost of making spaceships and space travel suitable for man. Unmanned probes, so the argument runs, would learn far more at much lower expense. Says Caltech's Astrophysicist Jesse Greenstein: "The manned-space program is mainly engineering, concerned with keeping people alive in curious circumstances. This does not advance science very much." Men who feel the same way have insisted for years that manned-space probes cost literally 100 times as much as unmanned, and are not worth it. Says Britain's eminent Astronomer Fred Hoyle: "What has been accomplished...
...consumer prices and a hostile press. Besides, there was worry about the reaction of a nervously pacifist nation to Sato's support of the U.S. stand in Viet Nam. In view of all this, many conservatives feared losses of as many as 40 seats in the 486-man Lower House. But when the votes were in, Liberal Democrats commanded 285 seats-seven more than they had held last December when Sato dissolved the Diet. Japan's second-ranking Socialists barely held their own level from the last House (141 seats). The burgeoning, Buddhist-backed Komeito Party-the "clean...
...destroyed the Russian fleet. That was the year of Japan's greatest military success, but little of it rubbed off on Eisaku. Sato's older brother, Nobusuke Kishi,* was the star of the family, graduated second in his class at Tokyo University law school (Sato was much lower). In 1941, Kishi became one of the youngest Cabinet ministers in Japanese history when, at 45, he became Hideki Tojo's Minister of Commerce and Industry...
...consensus to foster social change. As Moynihan himself says, "A quest for peace of this kind gives maximum leverage to the group with the most intransigent and assertive opinions, and the greatest ideological discipline" -- or, simply, the group with the most power. The problem for the Negro, specifically the lower-class Negro, is the gaining power--of influence over relevant decisions...