Word: lows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brink of disaster, first tries to get away from the brink, and only then does it think about the satisfaction of other needs," writes Sakharov. Beyond the brink, of course, is nuclear war, and Sakharov speaks so authoritatively on the destructive power of nuclear weaponry, on its low-cost production and "the practical impossibility of preventing a massive rocket attack" that U.S. analysts are certain that he has engaged in military research. Present foreign policy in both Washington and the Kremlin, he says, is aimed "at maximum improvement of one's position everywhere possible and, simultaneously, a method...
...year-old code. An office building can be written off for tax purposes in 45 years ?so why build it to last any longer? Admits one construction-company official: "There's no such thing as a luxury rental building?only middle-income buildings at luxury prices." Most low-rent housing developments, says Whitney Young, executive director of the National Urban League, rapidly turn into "vertical slums." As for planning, while many cities like Philadelphia and Boston have become showplaces, most of them cling to the old pattern of dull city blocks, where even the prestige corporate structures determinedly ignore...
...previously beaten this season, 5-0, for his eleventh straight victory and his eighth shutout of the year. His earned-run average at week's end was a phenomenal 0.96. Only one pitcher in baseball history (Ferdinand Schupp in 1916) has ever posted an E.R.A. that low for a season...
Garrison promised to name names, make arrests and get convictions. He did just that-or at least he began. He arrested Clay Shaw, a retired bachelor businessman well known at several levels of New Orleans society, high and low. Shaw, Garrison said, was really one Clay Bertrand, whose name cropped up in the Warren Report. As Bertrand, he said, Shaw had met with three men, including one Leon Oswald, and conspired to kill President Kennedy...
That conduct caused the company to fire 13 of the worst offenders. Last week tension reached a new high and tactics a new low. The Insurance Workers International Union's local in New York happens to belong to the Maritime Port Council, which acts as an umbrella for many small unions. So when 1,000 white-collar pickets gathered outside the Met offices, they were joined out of sympathy by 700 burly dock workers. The sales men and longshoremen marched through the streets chanting the peace demonstrators' slogan, "Hell no, we won't go." In this case...