Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were subjected to brainwashing showed more stubborn loyalty to their military outfit than to their own moral values or even their country. In Viet Nam, this knowledge is being applied by treating the battle-shocked man not as an individual but as part of his unit. Men like Major Joel Kaplan, 33, who heads the U.S. Army mental hygiene clinic in Nha Trang, recognize a number of stress syndromes that can tear the unit apart -and, in so doing, generate individual psychiatric casualties...
...sign of esteem, New York's Guggenheim is now holding a retrospective of the comic-strip-inspired works of Roy Lichtenstein, and the saggy, baggy sculptures of Claes Oldenburg are on display at the Museum of Modern Art. The Whitney Museum, not to be outdone, will exhibit another major Pop artist, Jim Dine, in February...
There is a great deal of comment in all these works. The hat, for example, is an image every English major at college encounters as far back as the medieval balladeers who sang of the brave Sir Patrick Spens, who drowned leaving no trace but a floating hat. In Washington's scissors there is the suggestion of red tape and the hint of emasculation...
According to generally accepted financial theory, this should have been an invitation to disaster. The assumption behind the IMF fixed-exchange rules is that uncertainty about what a major currency is worth from day to day will paralyze world trade and investment. Instead, trading in German money was heavy but orderly, and the mark's price rose 6%, to about 2610. Britain's Exchequer Chancellor Roy Jenkins summed up the situation as "very calm, all very calm...
...Durocher, and the policy paid off handsomely when Thompson's home runs sparked a successful Giant pennant drive in 1954. In the World Series that year, "Hammerm' Hank," as he was called, helped rout the formidable Cleveland Indians with a .364 batting average. He hit 129 major league homers before injuries and drinking problems forced his retirement...