Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seem remote in importance when compared with the rats and garbage that infest ghetto slums. Yet both DDT and rats directly degrade the quality of U.S. life. Nevertheless, some aspects of the environmental problem are clearly more pressing than others. For example, public-health and land-use planning should rank higher than campaigns against litter and noise. Curbing carbon monoxide in cities is more important than saving caribou in Alaska. For environmentalists, the new challenge is how to retain ecology's holistic view of man and nature while yet recognizing that the movement will soon fade unless it sets...
Massachusetts disease detectives, who rank among the best organized in the nation, say that prostitutes are to blame for only about 3% of cases: "They usually know how to take pretty good care of themselves." Male homosexuality is blamed for 16% and heterosexual free love...
Died. George V. Allen, 66, director general of the Foreign Service Institute and twice an Assistant Secretary of State; of a heart attack; in Bahama, N.C. A diplomat who rose to the rank of Career Ambassador, Allen served as envoy to Yugoslavia, India, Nepal, Iran and Greece, before becoming director of the U.S. Information Agency (1957-60). After retiring, he was appointed president of the Tobacco Institute, a position he held until being recalled to head the Foreign Service Institute in 1966. Often mistaken for George E. Allen, jolly friend and collector of Presidents (Roosevelt, Eisenhower), Ambassador Allen was once...
...both the U.A.W. and G.M. sides by men new to their jobs. Woodcock, 59, is a quiet intellectual. He sometimes speaks so softly that he can barely be heard, and he spends much of his free time listening to classical music. He is under intense pressure from an unruly rank and file to hold out for a fat settlement. Discussing the problem of absenteeism, he once admitted that the union's younger members "just do not respond to the threat of discipline." Every move he makes will be compared with what U.A.W. members think Reuther would have done...
...This is an orgy, ain't it?" he asks (pronouncing "orgy" with a hard g). But the kids taunt them mercilessly, steal their wallets and take off for a commune. Joe and Bill track down the youngsters in a closing scene of such horror that Joe must surely rank in impact with Bonnie and Clyde...