Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like a Phoenix. Thus last week, for the 29th time since World War II, Italy lapsed into governmental crisis. On the surface, this crisis seemed a bad one, with no solution in sight. "Siamo pronti per i colonnelli" ("We are ready for the colonels"), cried a young Roman in disgust at the nation's squabbling politicians. Indeed, in another, less patient land, the kind of chaos and confusion, disillusion and dismay gripping Italy would long since have provoked the army to take over. But appearances are deceiving in Italy, a country with its own peculiar laws of logic...
...During ten years in power, Acción Democrática has poured the country's ample oil revenues into schools, highways and public works. The economy is growing at an annual rate of 5.1%, and the benefits have spread through much of the population. Venezuela's per capita income, $745 a year, is the highest in Latin America. Unemployment is down to less than 7%, and the bolivar is one of the world's strongest currencies...
Mali, a landlocked country in West Africa, is one of the poorest nations on the continent. Annual per capita income is about $40, there is no significant industry, and there are no important mineral deposits. About 95% of the 4,700,000 Malians are subsistence farmers. Mali's exports (mostly cattle and cotton) are minuscule. Trade deficits have been running at an average $20 million annually, and rose to $38 million in 1966. Keita's struggle to impose a socialist economy met with a singular lack of success. Coupled with these problems had been Keita's steady...
...into The Game with perfect records, and football fever blazed so high that student scalpers were getting up to $175 for a Harvard Stadium seat. Proud possessor of a defensive unit that called itself the "Destroyers' Club," Harvard had allowed its opponents only 230 yds. and 7.6 points per game. Yale, a team that ranked No. 3 in total offense, had averaged 467 yds. and 36 points a game...
Despite good intentions and the Great Society, the health gap is growing. In 1940, the infant-mortality rate for nonwhites was 70% greater than for whites; now it is almost 100% greater-38.8 v. 20.6 per 1,000 live births. In some ghettos, infant-mortality rates exceed 100 per 1,000 live births-approaching the level of a Biblical plague. In Mississippi, the Negro maternal death rate is five times that of whites; 74% of these are, in medical opinion, preventable...