Word: mented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since the immediate postwar days. Rentals have soared, and the price of private houses has shot out of reach for millions of people. Last week, as government officials everywhere stewed over what to do, France's overbuilt bureaucracy took a few steps to ease its Crise du Loge-ment. It freed some state lands for housing development, announced a major slum-razing and rebuilding program, and sliced back the paperwork that now stymies building permits for up to two years...
...jury ("The judge can look from one juror to another, and each juror understands that he is being spoken to individually"). So many of Judge Boldt's colleagues are enthusiastic about his new courtroom that the Gen eral Services Administration, which bosses the construction of new Govern ment buildings, is considering adopting the design for future federal district courts...
...Made Mistakes." Not everyone shares this fondness for the telephone company, but almost everyone has an opinion about it. To U.S. military chiefs it is a first-class defense contractor, and scientists consider its Bell Labs to be the finest industrial-research establish ment anywhere. A.T.&T. has become so much a part of the American scene that it is at once a source of envy and admiration and a butt of jokes. Says Cartoonist Al Capp, whose Li'I Abner delights in needling Mother Bell: "In this country, if we don't like our wives, or even...
...since nylon and Dacron came along has a synthetic product stirred such interest and aggressive merchan dising as Corfam, Du Pont's new substi tute for leather. Put on sale only two months ago after years of develop ment, Corfam is already made in 100 different shoe styles by 32 manufac turers, is in such demand that Du Pont's pilot plant at Newburgh, N.Y., cannot keep up. The company is build ing a full-scale Corfam plant in Old Hickory, Tenn., and another in Malines, Belgium, to supply the European mar ket, is spending...
Britain's "eleven-plus exam," an IQ measurement plus tests in arithmetic and English composition, was set up in 1944 as the fairest way to channel children into state secondary schools geared to their abilities. But it has turned out to be the infamous instru ment that with dread finality determines whether a child aged 10½ to 11½ is to be high or low in Britain's totemistic society, whether he gets topflight pre-university training or a quick go at a lesser school...