Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party command of both houses in 20 states, the highest number it has controlled since 1955. The Democrats, similarly, have majorities in both houses in 20 states. The G.O.P. also commands 31 statehouses, more than at any time since 1953; the total includes every major state except Texas. At lower levels, the party also made some inroads. In 1966, the Republicans elected 557 new state legislators, although this year they made a net gain of only 36 more. At the county level, the Republicans won more than 700 new seats in 1966. This year they added more than 500 county...
Goondas and Tractors. They began in Karachi last month, when students demonstrated for lower fees, better accommodations, and the lowering of the passing mark from 50% to 45%. Later goondas, or hooligans, joined in, and the demonstrators turned violent, burning buses and cars. By last week, the riots had spread through West Pakistan, causing four deaths and 70 arrests. The protesters echoed Bhutto's charges that Ayub's government is undemocratic and corrupt. Bhutto in turn helped fuel the riots. In the midst of the demonstrations, he set out on a whistle-stop tour from Peshawar to Lahore...
They did, that is, until last week. Then the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Arkansas law prohibiting public school teaching of "the theory that mankind ascended or descended from a lower order of animals" is clearly unconstitutional. That ruling should put an end to the issue in Mississippi as well...
...Arkansas lower court agreed with the biology teacher. But the state's Supreme Court reversed that ruling in 1967, holding that the law was a "valid exercise of the state's power to specify the curriculum in its public schools." In last week's decision, the U.S. Supreme Court avoided entirely the issues of states' rights and freedom of speech. Since the Arkansas statute allowed the teaching of only the Biblical version of man's beginnings, ruled the court, it was clearly part of an "establishment of religion" by the state. The decision was written...
...raised in Chicago, studied English at Yale, but switched to art at the Art Institute of Chicago and came to New York in 1956 to pioneer artistic happenings. He staked out new frontiers for pop art with his plaster foodstuffs, which he sold at his 1961 Lower East Side Store. (The businessman who bought his plaster pies for $900 then values them at $12,000 today...