Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supporters are wrong, we will lose $100 per American. If the detractors are wrong, we will lose one American per American. Which would you choose...
...start TIME, but after a grueling year of canvassing friends and relatives, they could raise only $86,000. They went ahead anyway and somehow, with a small but aggressive staff of writers, turned out the magazine's first issue. An extraordinary number of prominent men plunked down the $5-per-year price to receive TIME, including Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Walter Lippmann, Herbert Bayard Swope, Edward W. Bok, the Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore, and half a dozen college presidents...
Park admits that there are conspicuous problems, including corruption at lower levels of government. Unemployment amounts to 7% of the country's labor force, and another 25% are underemployed. Some working women earn as little as 50? a day, and per-capita income last year was only $123, compared with Taiwan's $225 and Japan's $740, the two highest in Asia. But starvation has been almost completely eliminated, the literacy rate has been lifted to 90%, and the traditional spring question-enough rice or revolution?-is a bitter memory of the past...
...obvious reasons, traffic reporting is one of the most hazardous jobs in journalism. In the past ten years, at least ten traffic reporters have died in crashes. "If we can see and the wind is under 40 miles per hour, we go," says John Wagner of Kansas City's KMBC. "I've had a few knots on my head from banging against the glass while I'm trying to look out." In addition to watching out for traffic below, a reporter has to worry about ice accumulating on his rotor blades, the wash from a jet that...
Harvard killed the first minute of B.U.'s potent power play, which has a 37 per cent payoff rate this season. But at two minutes even, co-captain Pete McLachlan shot the puck in from the right point to Mike Sobeski. Sobeski's drive was blocked but trickled through to Crimson nemesis Fred Bassi, who swung the puck in from the crease...