Word: public
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your story, "The Dilemmas of Power" [Aug. 29], contains a garbled paragraph that is misleading and embarrassing to me and my company. Observations about the alleged harmful effects of fossil-fuel burning on public health appear" to be erroneously attributed to me. You should correct the record...
...played in six games that year. "Imagine walking into a locker room before a game and hearing guys ask, 'Well, who's going to blow it for us today?' Or people referring to you as the Ringling Brothers Circus. I was too embarrassed to show my face in public." For those who groused about their station in life, Casey conjured a classic reply: "I been hearing that some of these ballplayers are not too happy about being with the Mets. I told 'em maybe they shouldn't be so proud, and that they should consider that they are fortunate...
...million head office of Transamerica Corporation. When erected, it will be the tallest building in the West, and the issues it raises go straight to the heart of one of the most vexing problems of urban planning: where should the line be drawn between private convenience and the public good, especially when the public good is as intangible as a beautiful view...
...same overpermissive parents more often than not make irrational demands for high marks in school and insist on superhygienic cleanliness so that their children reflect well on them in public. Such families, says Bettelheim, exploit their children to fulfill their own "narcissistic needs"; they choose to follow Freud where it suits their convenience, and are as demanding of conformity as "the worst Victorian parent" where it does not. For the children, Bettelheim says, the result has been a "senseless" uncertainty about their own identities that turns to self-hate and later to resentment of the world at large...
General Motors is making minimal design changes. Frequently they involve nothing more fundamental than radiator grilles or other ornaments. The big Ford and Mercury models follow the same pattern. What few changes there are cater to the public's new taste for long hoods and truncated rear decks. For example, Chevrolet's lone new car, the Monte Carlo two-door sedan, measures 6 ft. from grille to windshield...