Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crimes in Adams House seem to be taking a certain pattern. A youth or several youths enter a room with the intention of searching it for money or other easily-moved valuables. If they find someone in the room, they ask him "Is so-and-so here" or "Where is so-and-so's room...
...Fundamental Task. The fiesta mood was well founded. Of twelve Presidents who have taken office since Mexico's 1910 revolution, Diaz Ordaz, 53, is the first to inherit a prosperous and united nation that faces no immediate major problems. True to the Mexican pattern of orderly alternation between regimes that are to the left or right of center, Diaz Ordaz, who was Minister of the Interior under López Mateos, is slightly more conservative than his predecessor, who nonetheless hand-picked him for the job. As the new President made clear in his inaugural address, his administration, like...
Patriotism over Profit. Just after the Federal Reserve raised the discount rate a fortnight ago, the Administration used its well-tested jawbone tactics on top Manhattan bankers, who usually set the pattern in the national loan market. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon telephoned his old friends and, according to Wall Street insiders, Johnson himself got on the horn to some bank chiefs, notably Morgan Guaranty's Henry Clay Alexander. The Administration satisfied itself that the New York bankers would make no immediate increases, partly because their supply of money was well ahead of the loan demand from cash-heavy...
Gilberto Freyre asked last night that the Portuguese cultural community be considered as the model for a constructive alternative to "the pattern of supranational racist commonwealths that are threatening the world...
...mandatory) to hire an extra couple to take coats and pass drinks, they have the energy to perform a well-worn role as if it were the choice part -in a first-run play, the ingenuity to plan a guest list with an eye toward a lively, varied pattern (putting banker next to deep-sea diver, Senator between pop artist and prima ballerina), and the social status sufficient to commandeer acceptances all around...