Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...water and soil on earth to absorb man-made poisons without effect. If we continue in our reckless way, this planet before long will become an unsuitable place for human habitation." At Washington University, Commoner now heads the first of a series of environmental health institutes being established at major campuses by the U.S. Public Health Service. He envisions sweeping changes in the near future. Among them: the outlawing of automobiles with fume-belching internal-combustion engines, and the elimination of certain chemical fertilizers, which will make farming less efficient and less profitable but also less dangerous to the environment...
...full version of this "metabiological pentateuch," as Shaw called it, had been staged only four times in five decades. Thus the National Theater production, directed by Clifford Williams with Donald MacKechnie, is by definition a major event, and may be pardoned for exuding some of the earnestness of being important...
...this devastating attack is Carew. He is a slim (6 ft., 170 Ibs.), graceful line-drive hitter who tops all major-league batsmen with a sparkling .356 average. Cat-quick, he has already tied a major-league mark by stealing home seven times this season. Behind him in the batting order comes Killebrew, 33, a chunky (6 ft., 210 Ibs.), balding veteran of 15 years in the majors, who is one of the most feared long-ball hitters in the game (total career home runs: 428). The very fact that Carew gets on base so often has helped Killebrew pile...
...major firms have run into severe difficulties. Heavy losses in both stocks and bonds last month forced Nuveen Corp. to arrange a major infusion of capital from Paul Revere Life Insurance Co. Nuveen had to resign its memberships in both the New York and American Stock Exchanges, which prohibit member firms from borrowing more than 25% of their capital from the outside. Though Nuveen plans to continue its brokerage activity through the Midwest Exchange, which has more lenient rules, the firm has laid off some 10% of its 450 employees. Meanwhile, McDonnell & Co., beset by financial and operating problems, recently...
...latest chapter in the bizarre saga of the Krupp dynasty, whose fortunes were based on blood and iron, unfolded in Germany's Ruhr last week. It involved a playboy's high-spending habits - and a squabble over a major industrial merger...