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Word: mets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excitement, but survival in the urban jungle. Properly dissatisfied with the inferior education that most of their children were receiving, the city's Negroes long ago began pressing for local control of schools in black neighborhoods. With encouragement from Lindsay, the Central School Board last year grudgingly met them part way, offering black communities limited autonomy in three experimental districts. If the districts succeeded, the prospect was that the entire school system-a "pathological bureaucracy" in the words of New York University Professor David Rogers-would in time be decentralized so that parents all over the city would

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOHN LINDSAY'S TEN PLAGUES | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

Doan was disarmingly honest, as were all the public relations men, scientists, and minor officials we met in our frenzied one-day tour of Dow's Midland, Mich., facility. They all talked about making money through the market system, and they all believed that society would benefit from their efforts if only they concentrated on making money...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: The World of Dow | 10/31/1968 | See Source »

After talking with Dow's people (at least the people we met, most of whom were PR types) one might be excused for thinking that they had, in fact, spent their whole lives inside the plant. Except, of course, when they drove to nearby Saginaw Tri-City Airport to catch a flight to one of Dow's several hundred other plants and sales offices around the nation and the world...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: The World of Dow | 10/31/1968 | See Source »

Last Wednesday, chemistry students met the requirement with a petition that asked for an open meeting sponsored by the department faculty which would include all elements of the Harvard community...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Dow to Return to Campus; Public Meeting Uncertain | 10/26/1968 | See Source »

...Sands. Looking like a crestfallen road-show narrator for Our Town, Robards doesn't indicate that an atom of sex is dancing in his head. Sleek, sassy Diana Sands seems about as vulnerable as a Navy destroyer with guns blazing. They act together as if they had never met, let alone shared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Indiscriminate Bombing | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

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