Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the TIME-Harris poll exposes a huge gulf between the old verities and life as it is actually lived by the American people today. Indeed, from the facts themselves, it is fair to conclude that the poll has captured a detailed portrait of American moral standards in a period of drastic change. That portrait is neither ugly nor entirely flattering, but it does show in bold relief the Janus-like face of a nation that is anxiously establishing new standards of morality while remaining reluctant to abandon completely the values of its forebears...
...display -including John Kennedy's bassinet, the silver bowl and spoon he used as a child, and two of the favorite books of his boyhood: King Arthur and His Knights and Billy Whiskers, the story of a goat. There is also a toy train of the period, presented by the Museum of the City of New York...
...most hopeful news from Latin America last week had nothing to do with the U.S. visitors: the formation of a common market by the five Andean countries of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile. The five agreed to work toward the elimination of internal tariffs within an eleven-year period and the erection of a common external tariff. This Andean common market represents an improvement over the largely ineffective Latin American Free Trade Association, formed in 1960 by ten Latin American countries. In several respects, the Andean experiment is similar to the nine-year-old Central American Common Market whose...
...Temp recalls, Guidesters began writing to complain about the Gresham Hotel in Dublin, an alltime Fielding favorite. He collected their letters over a seven-month period, then sent photo copies to his old friend, Manager Toddie O'Sullivan. "I said, 'Toddie, I don't like this at all. Something must be wrong.' " Next, he dispatched Nancy on an inspection trip, then dropped the Gresham to No. 2 in Dublin, behind the Shelbourne. "We said we hoped it was only a temporary aberration," Fielding says. At first furious, O'Sullivan took a second look and decided that the Guide was right...
...standards could be tightened to require more trained help and force other chains to follow the lead of Beverly Enterprises, whose President Christensen announced last week that he will open schools to train nursing-home personnel. Such efforts would increase costs, of course, perhaps enough to hasten the shakeout period that in any new business follows the opening era of heady growth. That would be all to the good. Investors as well as prospective patients need to know which of the chains, behind their sparkling fronts, have developed an ability to earn a profit while meeting exacting standards. Meanwhile, those...