Word: lows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visible, but no less important, housing and neighborhood-improvement programs. As proof of his efforts, he announced this month that he had persuaded Boston banks, insurance companies and industries to invest $56 million in depressed neighborhoods. Some $50 million will be in loans to finance rehabilitation and construction of low-income housing units, while the remaining $6,000,000 will be seed money to encourage poor people to set up their own businesses...
Rights for Women. The Communists had broadened their campaign appeal with a program promising reform rather than revolution, affluence rather than ideology. They emphasized the Center-Left's failures by promising similar measures themselves, such as a $50 monthly pension, rights for women, low-cost housing, a more efficient tax-collecting system. In foreign policy, they advocated withdrawal from NATO, but avoided calling for membership in the Moscow-run Warsaw Pact. They also won new voters among Catholics, arguing that Pope John's Vatican Council had liberated Catholics to vote Communist in good conscience if they wished...
...Low Library, hooligans shattered windows in the office of President Kirk, who finally gave the order for police to clear the campus. When a brick slammed into the face of a patrolman, 1,000 outraged police charged through the crowd, swinging night sticks and chasing students up the stairs of their dormitories. By the time an uneasy peace was restored, 68 people-including 17 policemen-had been injured, and 177 persons were under arrest...
...Fournier, thinking the blood covered abrasions caused by a blackjack or brass knuckles, sent his patient to be X-rayed for possible skull fractures. The radiologist took one look at the X-ray print and gasped: "This man has a head full of lead." He had found five low-caliber, low-velocity bullets. Beneath the clotted blood were wounds that could hardly have been caused by anything but bullets...
...Granatelli was up to his ears in fast cars, he was soon precariously low on drivers. Jones decided that he would not drive this year; and doctors announced that Jackie Stewart's hand, injured the month before, would not be healed in time for the race...