Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Demilitarized Zone. Would Hanoi agree not to exploit the cratered, bloodied strip near the 17th parallel to mount attacks on allied forces just to the south...
Underground Figure. In the U.S., he hopes to be known-period. Lightfoot is Canada's top-selling male singer, with an annual income of about $250,000 and a 17-room house in a stockbroker-and-executive neighborhood of Toronto. But south of the 49th parallel, where his songs are performed by such singers as Harry Belafonte and Peter, Paul and Mary, he has remained chiefly a popular figure in the folk underground. Until recently, at least. Now he is getting numerous engagements in the club circuit; during the past few months he has performed at Manhattan...
There is no sign of a letup in the resulting proliferation of pipe, even though some lines already parallel others. Gas companies plan to lay out another 850 miles next year, despite some gathering economic clouds. It takes about three years before a pipeline even begins paying its way, and it will be a long time before the gas companies can retrieve their share of the total $8 billion sunk off Louisiana so far. Even now, other underwater strikes are turning up, notably off Texas...
Certainly, much is beyond Lindsay's or any Mayor's control. He is not only opposed on many issues by the Democratic City Council; the state legislature as well has a degree of control over city policies that is perhaps without parallel elsewhere in the U.S. The spectacular hike in welfare rolls is a direct result of heavy black migration from the South and a longtime influx of Puerto Ricans. Much of the budget, including welfare, is mandated by law. Inflation causes union to vie against union in looking to the city treasury...
...effrontery of Maggie Flynn is to commercially exploit, for purposes of amusement, the oppression of Negroes, draft evasion and the Viet Nam war in terms of a factitiously conceived parallel with the draft riots of 1863. So slipshod is the play that at one point the draft dodgers, who have been presented as militantly antiwar, go racially berserk and are about to burn, maim or kill a dozen Negro orphans. Behind the injected element of fashionable social consciousness lies a cornball ro mance about the orphans' surrogate mother (Shirley Jones) and her erratic spouse (Jack Cassidy), who went...