Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JAPANESE politicking is usually a gentleman affair; the stately courtesy of exchange bows and fixed smiles maintains the fiction of political consensus and party unity. But Japanese politicians were not at their best last month. The nations's general elections exploded the myth of the political gentleman and pushed long-festering political hatreds into the open. Rivals slugged it out in an unprecedentedly public breakdown of party unity, leaving the government paralyzed and the nation disgusted with its leaders' antics...
...competition for P.U. is especially intense. It is considered the top school in China and recruits from all over the nation. It is the Chinese Harvard...
...business-suited crowd that showed up last night for the opening of Boston's first and the nation's largest Wendy's Old-Fashioned Hamburgers were definitely more interested in fast profits than fast food...
...Army-the vicious discrimination against blacks. I remember meeting A. Phillip Randolph in Washington, where he had gone to see President Roosevelt to obtain a change of that policy, and found that the only place where Randolph and I could eat was in Union Station, since restaurants in the nation's capital would not serve blacks. I wrote about this in The New Leader. Shortly thereafter, I found to my dismay that Goebbels had reprinted and broadcast these pieces to show the "hypocrisy" of American democracy. Should we have refrained from continuing to write such stories because of their misuse...
Harvard holds stocks in 18 companies that process nuclear fuel, construct or maintain nuclear utilities, or operate some of the country's 70 licensed nuclear power plants. The largest investments are in five of the nation's major oil firms...