Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poor may not be getting poorer, but they are constantly growing more numerous. Poor families in the U.S. have an average of 4.5 children compared with three for those above the poverty line. Last week President Nixon sent a message to Congress calling for a major increase in federal family planning services in the next five years. The goal: to make birth control information and devices available to all American women of childbearing...
...defense against China. But is China going on a predatory expansionist policy? That is not their method. Their technique is through people's liberation wars. Vietnamese, not Chinese, have to die in Viet Nam. The whole world has got to live with China. It is up to the major powers-America, Russia, Japan and the countries of Western Europe-to come to some accommodation first. Then the countries of Southeast Asia can find accommodation with China within the framework of the United Nations, I hope...
...expatriates in Honduras, Salvadorans have excelled as farm workers and shopkeepers. Increasingly, Hondurans began to resent the Salvadoran intruders, who sometimes took jobs and land away from local people. Honduras last year decreed a land reform, ostensibly to create more equitable distribution of its farm acreage. But one major effect was to deny Salvadorans the right to own land. Many Salvadorans, forced off their Honduran farms, began to return to their overcrowded homeland...
...this is reflected in a sumptuous summer-long exhibition entitled "The Past Rediscovered: French Painting 1800-1900" at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The show provides a rare opportunity for reacquaintance and reassessment (see color). Paintings by both major and minor figures, including seven loaned by the Louvre, have been arranged in chronological sequence, thereby skillfully re-creating a vigorous esthetic dialogue reflected on canvas...
...rookie rightfielder did not look like an overpowering slugger. Yet in a season dominated by superlative pitching, he hit 29 home runs. He also struck out 171 times-the second-highest total in major-league history. On top of that, he led American League outfielders in errors with twelve. "I took the bat with me to the outfield," Jackson explains. "When I did poorly at the plate, I used to brood about it out there...