Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entire history of painting in America there has been no more conspicuous example of being the right man in the right place at the right time," writes Professor Howard Merritt in his introduction to the first major show of the works of Thomas Cole in 20 years...
...early 1944, Artillery Captain Fielding was transferred to the OSS and shipped to Italy, Algeria and Yugoslavia to do propaganda work behind enemy lines. After a narrow escape from an ambush on the Dalmatian coast, he was discharged as a major with a citation that credited him with arranging "more than 30,000 voluntary enemy surrenders." He returned to civilian life as a roving journalist, and as he roved, he discovered that no travel guide catered to his all-American life style...
Polite Rebuff. While several major denominations have acknowledged the injustices suffered by the American Negro and have stepped up their contributions to black causes, they have not besieged Forman personally with offerings of cash. The United Presbyterian Church invited him to address its General Assembly last month, but pointedly took issue with his manifesto's threat of violence to obtain compensation from the churches. Even before the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church rejected the demands, Presiding Bishop John E. Hines called Forman's manifesto "calculatedly revolutionary, Marxist, inflammatory, anti-Semitic and anti-Christian." The Forman plan, added...
...inflation-weakened moneys of Germany's trading partners. This disparity has turned Germany into a heavily patronized discount store for the rest of the world. By recent estimates of the German Bundesbank, Germany's goods now cost an average of 7½% less than those of its major trading partners. Since the difference is even greater between German and U.S. products, it is hardly surprising that German exports to the U.S. climbed 38% last year. As the world's most successful exporters, the Germans in 1968 sold $25 billion worth of machinery, vehicles, chemicals, plastics and other...
...U.A.W.'s 1,600,000 will each have to contribute 100 a month, giving the alliance operating funds of $4.3 million a year. The organization will also have tremendous muscle to back up its demands. The U.A.W. has the power to paralyze one of the nation's major industries, and the Teamsters can tie up virtually every segment of U.S. industry by stopping the trucks...