Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Small wonder, then, that those on earth saw it as a beleaguered battlefield -not, as Astronaut Lovell described it from his vantage point nearly a quarter of a million miles away, as "a grand ovation to the vastness of space." Sated with violence, sick of crisis, weary of politics and protest alike, the U.S.-and the rest of the world-needed few excuses to look to the heavens. As the year waned, they shifted their gaze to earth's placid, lifeless satellite-as Sir Richard Burton described it in 1880, "A ruined world, a globe burnt out, a corpse...
...will another millionaire builder, Governor John Volpe of Massachusetts, who will head the Transportation Department. Volpe retained his chairmanship of the John A. Volpe Construction Co. while serving as Governor. He will sell his interest, which he estimates at about $1,000,000, and expects to lose a quarter of that in taxes...
...help finance their spending, consumers borrowed more and saved less in 1968. From the year's second quarter to the third quarter, personal savings fell from an abnormally high 7.5% of after-tax income to 6.3%. In the third quarter, installment loans rose at a record annual rate of nearly $9 billion. And for installment buyers, as well as for businessmen, the availability of credit is far more important than its interest cost...
There is reason to expect that next year demand will taper and the price spiral will slow. The tax increase is finally beginning to take effect: the after-tax income of the average American, which rose at an annual rate of $36 in this year's first quarter, increased $20 in the second quarter and only $4 in the third quarter. On Jan. 1, the taxpayer will be hit with an increase in Social Security taxes; the maximum payment, for people earning $7,800 a year or more, will go up from $290 to $374. On April 15, millions...
Fascinated by Zen. Merton's wide-ranging, eclectic mind could touch upon the Beatles or the Bomb, but for a quarter of a century he never left the Abbey of Gethsemani, except for trips to the doctor or drives with visiting friends around neighboring Kentucky hills. In fact, for almost a decade, with his ab bot's permission, he had withdrawn from much of the community life, living Thoreau-like in a small hermitage on abbey property more than a mile from the main buildings. This year he was finally granted a leave of absence from Gethsemani...