Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boss was to build a giant statue of Stalin overlooking the Vltava River in Prague. Though he eventually came around to recognizing the need for a reorganization of the country's decrepit economy and for granting wider freedom of expression to writers, he did so only reluctantly. He ran a severe police state, yoked the economy and foreign policy of Czechoslovakia to the needs of the Soviet Union and mercilessly purged "revisionists." Ill suited by training and temperament for any sort of liberalization, he later stalled on economic reforms and took back some of -the privileges that...
...North Carolina courageously put young felons into an open prison camp staffed entirely by group-therapy veterans-recently paroled California convicts. It worked, until the legislature nervously stopped the money. (The head parolee later became a professional penologist.) Several states profitably rely on Author Bill Sands (My Shadow Ran Fast), a reformed California armed robber, whose Seven Step Foundation sends ex-convicts into prisons to counsel inmates and runs "freedom houses" to help re-leasees. Of 5,000 Seventh Step graduates so far, only 10% have returned to prison. An ex-New York prisoner named Hiawatha Burris has carved...
Last week NBC ran a dramatization of John Steinbeck's folksy odyssey, Travels with Charley. The scenery was impressive, but stagy re-enactments of scenes from the book were tossed in like roadblocks, and the show got lost east of the Black Hills. National Educational Television claimed an American TV first by showing a remarkable 30-minute color film of a baby's birth. But the program was spoiled by one of those dull panel discussions that plague so much of Public...
...view that proliferating billboards were striking a blow at the state's greatest tourist asset: its unspoiled wooded hills and valleys. Although one letter to the editor insisted that "good billboards are beautiful and break the monotony of a long motor trip," citizen mail to editors and legislators ran as much as 30-to-l in favor of the ban. Crucial to the passage the bill was the support by the host of organizations most dependent on out-of-state visitors, including the Vermont Ski Operators and the Green Mountain Motel Association. In fact, the Stowe Area Association, even...
After the Denarius. Throughout history, rulers unable to handle their monetary affairs have resorted to devaluation. The ancient Romans began to debase the denarius under Nero (A.D. 54-68) after they ran into-but failed to recognize-their balance of payments problems. Founded on plunder, Rome as an empire lacked the manufacturing, agriculture and commerce to pay for its costly imports. Trajan added copper to the once 99%-pure-silver denarius, and later the coin became wholly base metal. A century before Alaric sacked the Eternal City in A.D. 410, Rome had lost not only its purchasing power but also...