Word: popping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to a recent estimate, 21% of skilled blue-collar workers and 16% of professional employees are on payrolls that rely on military spending. Entire communities depend almost totally on a military installation, defense plants, or both. Junction City, Kans. (pop. 20,500), lives off Fort Riley. The post pumps $143 million into the state's economy, most of it in the Junction City area. When an Army division left in 1965, business plummeted...
...five days of mourning was so eloquent in expressing the country's feeling of nostalgia and affection as the simple, spontaneous turnouts along the tracks. In Charleston, W. Va., nearly 600 people, including children in pajamas and blankets, watched the train go by. In Washington, Ind., a small (pop. 11,000) farming town in the southwestern part of the state, 10,000 people gathered from as far away as 50 miles to greet the train as it stopped to change crews. Some put their hands to their hearts, but most just watched silently when the baggage car, bearing...
...scandals, including indictments of five Yorty-appointed city commissioners on charges of bribery or criminal conflict of interest. (Three were convicted, two await trial.) Angelenos were unhappy with the mayor's frequent absences visited more than a dozen foreign countries-while the nation's third city (pop. 2,800,000) was wracked by crises. Los Angeles Negroes (18% of the voters) united against Yorty for his failure to grapple with racial issues that have simmered since the 1965 Watts uprising. Though Yorty integrated city departments, Negroes were of the opinion that it was only a token effort...
Today, though, she is beginning to catch on as a singer as well as a song-smith. Joni was the unquestioned hit of last January's Miami Pop Festival, and last weekend she started a concert tour that will take her to Boston, New York, Chicago, Ottawa and Montreal. At the end of April, she tapes a television show in Nashville with Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash. Her latest album has an advance sale of 100,000 copies, a month before its release. Furthermore, she has risen from obscure poverty to ownership of a music company valued...
...would Alfred Enderby, although he is not a statesman but only a farm hand in the tiny (pop. 150) Lincolnshire village of South Ormsby. As long as he can remember, Enderby, 65, has been worshiping at St. Leonard's Church, a weathered, three-century-old stone building. Enderby has also been the parish's diligent churchwarden for more than two decades. Rising at dawn, he arrives at St. Leonard's shortly before 8 o'clock holy communion, tolls the ancient bell, carefully lights the altar candles, and then drops his usual small offering into the collection...