Word: maling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's maior industrial democracies denies its citizens), and the negative income tax, which late last month was endorsed by a committee of industrialists including Ford's Arjay Miller and Xerox Chairman Joseph C. Wilson. The statistic that moves businessmen the most: from the age of 17, a male who lives to 57 can cost the public...
...understanding of the subject is the "poverty line," a sliding scale devised five years ago by Social Security Economist Mollie Orshansky. Her flexible income line rises for large urban families and recedes for those in rural areas, dipping as low as $1,180 a year for a single male on a farm, and soaring to $7,910 for a city family with eleven or more children. The level for an urban family of four?which is as close to a typical situation as can be found?...
...Appalachians are the most hopeless: they arrive in ancient automobiles, hoping for nothing more than a quick profit on a job that will permit them to return to their holler. They are generally too individualistic to work with others and cannot tolerate taking orders. When the womenfolk get work, male pride often degenerates to ire or alcoholism. The men get hooked on day-work (which they can quit easily), earning maybe $7 or $8 a day as a launderer, car washer or janitor. Or they begin hitting the bottle, hanging out in such bars as the "Country...
...Roman Catholic church (Harlech's children were raised in his wife's religion, but he is an Anglican), which she planned without informing her parents until the day ahead, she chose a mid-calf Victorian model. Julian, 27, heir to the title, hires himself out as a male model. "My hands are my specialty," he explains. "Being long and delicate, they're useful for cigarette ads." Victoria, 21, lives with her grandmother, and the two youngest, 16-year-old Alice and 14-year-old Francis, attend school, Alice in Manhattan...
...language student, Vicky works between academic quarters as a topless dancer at various clubs around the San Francisco Bay area. For her campaign, she simply passed out posters of her nude self with the legend "Vicky for Pres." It was obviously the right approach for Stanford's heavily male (5-to-2 ratio) student population, which gave her 1,575 votes and made her a heavy favorite to win this week's runoff election...