Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atlanta's durable Hank Aaron has 24, to bring his career total to 534. With the season little more than half over, seven or eight hitters thus have a shot at hitting 50 or more home runs-a feat that has been accomplished by only nine players in major league history.* If 1968 was the year of the pitcher, 1969 may well be remembered as the year of the fence-busters...
...nation in angry argument over sex courses. State legislatures have argued the subject; school-board and P.T.A. meetings have been disrupted by angry opponents of sex education, who have sometimes labeled its advocates Communist sympathizers and proponents of "psychological VD." The nationwide offensive against sex education was a major topic at this month's annual convention of the National Education Association, which passed a resolution strongly reaffirming its support for the courses...
...recent speech, Ley warned the drugmakers: "I feel very strongly that you are in grave danger of losing public confidence. Unless there is a major change in the drug industry's emphasis on sales over safety, the industry as we know it today may well be buried in the next several years in a grave that it has helped to dig, inch by inch, overpromotion by overpromotion, bad drug by bad drug...
...Italian firm was in shaky condition as a result of an unprofitable project in Egypt. Since then CTIP's net worth has risen 450%, to $5,000,000. It has won important new business in Latin America, Spain and Scandinavia, and added Gulf and British Petroleum as major clients...
...PLaza 8 exchange. It is the first of the city's three fully computerized exchanges-and one of its most overloaded. PLaza 8 machinery gagged on B. & B.'s volume of 10,000 calls a day. Steele's patience broke when he discovered that a major advertiser whose account was up for bids had been unable to reach the agency for nearly two days...