Word: richness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crime rate is higher than Chicago's. A Methodist Church survey shows that 27% of Las Vegas residents are divorced. The illusory Vegas is the one that will be seen by 14 million visitors this year. Like giant mirages created by the heat vapors of the get-rich-quick furnace, the neon-lit, freon-cooled sand castles of The Strip rise amid the cacti and creosote bushes, massive monuments to hedonism. Inside their carpeted, clockless confines, nothing seems real: time stands still, and $100 is just a black gambling chip. This Las Vegas is a jet-age Sodom...
...Thieu government last week introduced in the National Assembly a bill that would revolutionize land ownership in South Viet Nam, where the best acreage still is held by the rich and privileged few. According to the legislation, due to be enacted into law this month, South Viet Nam's 800,000 tenant farmers, at no cost to themselves, will be able to take full possession of the land they now till. The 40,000 landowners who hold more than 80% of South Viet Nam's cultivable riceland will, in effect, be bought out by the government...
...Tshombe had been largely a non-person since his exile in 1965. The son of a millionaire trader, Tshombe emerged on the world stage when the Congo became an independent country. Patrice Lumumba, the Congo's charismatic first Premier, wanted strong central government. Tshombe, speaking for the copper-rich province of Katanga, demanded a loose federation. The disagreement started a civil war that raged for 29 months, required 30,000 United Nations troops to settle, and was notable for rape, pillage and bloody atrocities. Lumumba was murdered-a U.N. commission suspected Tshombe of complicity-and Tshombe was exiled...
...response to his in vestiture as Prince of Wales. Around the world millions watched the four hours of panoply and pageantry over satellite TV transmission. What the world saw was a slim, erect young man moving slowly and somewhat stiffly at first through one of royalty's rich, ancient rituals. But for the 80,000 or so who crowded in and around the ancient castle of Caernarvon, the mixture of Welsh informality and London modishness that marked the occasion made it a kind of family and tribal outing. Charles' investiture turned out to be more impressive, more personal...
Poor communications with blacks, he pointed out, is thus due to the fact that psychiatry "is structured to help the rich who can afford individual therapy, not disadvantaged in the community...