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...parity. "Not because they're milkers, but because they're farmers," he said. "And it would be just turning down the whole damn Middle America. Uh, where, uh, we, uh, where we, uh, need support. And under the circumstances, I think the best thing to do is just, uh, relax and enjoy it." Minutes later Nixon said he would boost support prices?without saying just how high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: More Evidence: Huge Case for Judgment | 7/29/1974 | See Source »

...palmier days, the New York Stock Exchange sought to preserve its affluent image and guard against conflicts of interest by sternly forbidding licensed security salesmen of member brokerage firms to take a second job. Lately, however, the exchange has had to greatly relax its longstanding rule against moonlighting. Reason: thousands of expensively trained sales specialists were leaving the brokerage business for other fields, as the stock market's deepening slump dried up commissions. Today, more and more securities salesmen who want to stay in the business and yet continue to eat are doing after-hours stints as bartenders, models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: The New Moonlighters | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

...tense race for Radcliffe, which started at 47 strokes per minute, its highest cadence all year. The team finally settled to 40 strokes, but was never able to relax into its normal racing cadence of 36 strokes...

Author: By Wendy B. Jackson, | Title: Vesper, B.U. Top Women in Oakland | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...increasing extent, middle-class blacks and whites enjoy the same kind of after-hours recreation. Nevertheless, at certain times in certain places, the two groups relax in decidedly different ways. With due allowance for literary license, Reporter Evelyn Thompson contrasts black and white parties in Phoenix. "At the white party, the guests always stay standing up, discuss serious topics for maybe three to 15 minutes and then move on to speak with other people. At a black party, you just 'jive' in one big group, putting each other on, trying to top the last line. A white party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: America's Rising Black Middle Class | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

...inauguration at the Elysée Palace, wore a business suit instead of tails, talked for a few minutes about a "new era" instead of delivering an oration about the glories of the past. Over the next few days he announced the first of several measures to "relax" French political life. He decreed an end to widespread wiretapping by government snoopers, promised greater freedom for the French press, and placed a ban on sales of arms to unspecified regimes at odds with France's "liberal mission." Said Giscard: "France is a liberal country, and must set its sights further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: No One Here But Us Liberals | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

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