Word: properity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Passed in the House, 394 to 1, and sent to the Senate a bill to create an Administration on Aging under the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, with an initial two-year budget of $17.5 million for planning on how to ensure adequate income, proper health care, suitable housing, and worthwhile activities for persons over...
...railed at the report, accused Plaza of being pro-Greek and denounced him for going beyond the "boundaries of his duty." Instead of solving one problem, complained a Turkish official, Plaza had created a new one. But U.N. Secretary-General U Thant defended Plaza's report as perfectly proper...
...store cosmetic sales in 1926 at San Francisco's City of Paris, then grandly turned down orders for less than $25,000 when other stores clamored for her products. She introduced medicated face creams and waterproof mascara, was the first to send saleswomen on the road to demonstrate proper makeup for ordinary women. She was also wise enough to keep prices high. "Some women," she once said, "won't buy anything unless they can pay a lot." Today more than 100 Helena Rubinstein products are sold in the U.S., and sales have increased 500% since World...
...need for a new museum was all too apparent. Not only was Los Angeles moving from third to second position in population, but the best art collected in the area was going elsewhere for lack of a proper home: in 1951 the Arensberg Collection of French impressionists had departed for Philadelphia, in 1957 the old Los Angeles County Museum lost out, by $500,000, when the Edward G. Robinson collection went to Stavros Niarchos for $3,000,000. More recently, Avery Brundage's Oriental treasures have gone to San Francisco...
...city demands not only a renewed message from the church but a renewed lan guage. Technopolis, Cox argues, sees no meaning in religious terminology derived from tribal society-God as Father, for example-or even in the metaphysical discourse of town culture that defined God as Supreme Being. Its proper language is, in the broadest sense of the word, politics. Thus, says Cox, if the church is to preach God to the emerging secular city, it must find a secular, pragmatic way of proclaiming him in mis-worldly terms. This will not be easily or quickly discovered, since the secular...