Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Among the things that TIME takes up in its article on middle age, there's the fact that in the period there are frequently last grasps at youth. Middle-aged men in particular, TIME says, will sometimes see a couple of young lovers in the park or somewhere and feel an actual physical pang, or they divorce their wives of 20 years' standing and go leaping off into a new marriage with a secretary. But these are the exceptions. The average middle-ager sublimates, and instead of pinching his secretary, he buys a convertible or starts drinking more...
...system, tend to induct poor boys, Negroes and school dropouts, while sparing richer or brainier youngsters. Many Americans feel uneasy-and the draftee may feel downright angry-that the 971,000 active reservists and National Guardsmen are exempted from extended military service for the price of a brief training period and periodic home drills. Last week both the President and Congress took note, in different ways, of the rising dissatisfaction with the draft-which, the Defense Department announced, will be boosted for the month of October to a peacetime record...
Most victims paid, surrendering anywhere from $500 to $50,000, depending on what the extortioners had the temerity to ask. One wealthy Midwestern schoolteacher coughed up $120,000 over a four-year period. For those who would not pay, the gang was quite ready to carry out its threat of exposure. The marriage of one victim who refused to be intimidated was wrecked when the gang informed his wife; an Army officer committed suicide rather than submit to pressure. One alleged shakeman awaiting trial, a former Chicago detective, had authentic Chicago police badges, arrest warrants, and even extradition papers...
Seeking a Scapegoat. No investigation is needed to establish the major point: for the first time since the inflationary Korean War period, food prices are climbing faster than overall retail prices. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, food has gone up by 3½% in the past year; meat, fish and poultry 7½%, dairy products 5½%. Local situations dramatize the difficulty. In Chicago last week the retail price of butter was 93? per lb., up 12½? from last year. In Detroit, lettuce has gone from 20? a head to 29?, cabbage from...
...last week Federal Judge Howard Corcoran broke form and ordered HUAC to post-pone an investigation into the left fringe of the anti-war movement until a special three-judge court could hear a new ACLU suit against the committee. In the twenty-four hour period before the three-judge panel vacated Corcoran's order, Congressional reaction and in particular HUAC's decision to go ahead with hearings anyway demonstrated that a Court decision declaring HUAC's unconstitutionality would not be taken sitting down. It also seemed evident that many anti-HUAC Congressmen, assuming they exist, would give higher priority...