Word: respectables
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This grim possibility could be avoided. Some of the oil companies, even before leasing their rights, went to costly lengths to respect the land. Instead of using trucks to transport equipment, for example, Atlantic Richfield Co. lifted rigs over the fragile country with giant Sikorsky Skycrane helicopters. For its part, the Federal Government says it will enforce water-quality standards in the area. Because it owns vast amounts of the North Slope as yet unopened to oil exploration, the Government is in a position to insist upon whatever guidelines it can devise to control development and minimize damage...
...years, he has had more doors slammed in his face than a traveling salesman and has caused more telephones to be hung up in anger than a recorded message. But few Washington reporters have earned more respect from their colleagues than Jack Northman Anderson, 46, inheritor of the Drew Pearson column...
There is a good deal of chatter about whether the Senator needs his mother to wipe his nose; with all due respect to Mrs. Rose Kennedy, isn't it possible that it is not the Senator's nose which needs her attention, but his perspective...
Sixty years ago last week, Sigmund Freud paid his only visit to the U.S. to deliver a series of five lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. The $750 fee was a great help to the hard-pressed doctor, and the warm reception, he later noted, "encouraged my self-respect in every way." Now a collection of 13 letters discovered in the basement of Clark's library indicates that Freud kept up a correspondence with the university's president, Psychologist G. Stanley Hall. The letters abound with expressions of gratitude and courtesy. But one with a sharper tone...
...mentally packing their suitcases. The idea behind Nora's leaving was lofty. Woman was no longer to be a possession, a commodity, a glorified nursemaid, a kept dilettante on the sidelines of the world's imposing work. She would forge her own identity and earn something called "respect." The amusing thing about this, as G. K. Chesterton once pointed out, was that "a million women announced their intention to be free and promptly began taking dictation...