Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast to the attitude of the Democratic-controlled Congress, voters want to end price controls on oil and natural gas by 49%-38%. They divide almost evenly on whether to trim existing social programs in order to balance the federal budget. The President is on the popular side of the busing issue, with 51 % favoring a constitutional amendment banning the practice and 39% opposed. The survey suggests, however, that candidates need not bend over backward to appease antiabortionists. A constitutional amendment banning abortion is disapproved...
Ruth Darmstadter, a former Nader staffer writing in the Washingtonian, charges that "the popular image of a band of 60 to 70 dedicated idealists working in happy concert with Nader is, quite simply, a fiction. When you couple Nader's incompetence as an administrator with the importance of employees remaining in his favor, you have the formula for a poisoned atmosphere." One dramatic expression of that atmosphere was the mysterious, nighttime removal of a personal diary from the office of Ted Jacobs, a high-level Nader associate, who says he was then fired by Nader for "misconduct...
...which American domestic hopes most visibly converge and conflict, the recreation that most remarkably reveals those double-fault lines in American marriage?a want of kindness, a shortage of manners. The swift transformation of a game once played mainly by the happy few?mannerly, immaculately clad and, to the popular mind, a bit sissified?into a mass middle-class mania, which may soon be pursued by more women than men, has already worked a number of apparently permanent small changes in American social life...
...beautiful people, and some not so beautiful, dance the night and morning away to a loud, seamless stream of glossily recorded rhythm-and-blues songs. Disco has become not only an energetic way to play the mating game but also one of the hottest subindustries in the popular-entertainment field. In terms of the hit singles that can now be made, the stereo and quad equipment that can be peddled to the club owners, and the crowds that can be drawn in at $5 or more a head, disco is a multimillion-dollar business...
Died. Juscelino Kubitschek, 73, imaginative', popular former President of Brazil (1956-61), who built Brasilia, a new concrete-and-glass capital in the desolate interior, in order to hasten Brazil's northern development; in an automobile accident; near Rio de Janeiro. A surgeon by training, Kubitschek relinquished a lucrative society practice to pursue his political career. He captured the presidency with a platform of "Fifty Years' Progress in Five." Foreign investment and farsighted government programs helped build highways, power projects and a thriving automobile industry, but high inflation, deficits and charges of corruption marred his five-year...