Word: risings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps the Socialists, who only six years ago commanded 15% of all French votes, will rise again. The practical effect of the opposition's collapse, however, is the demise of any remaining parliamentary democracy in France, at least for the moment. That development alarms France's Centrist Party, whose leaders feel that the opposition's impotency reflects a deeper ill. As they see it, French society is losing its cohesion and direction. The Centrist publication Facts and Causes, for example, writes that "in reality, the malaise is twofold." Its reasoning: "The failure of the government has caused...
...Signal, a Chicago maker of police sirens, has gone from $19 to $42 in the past year. American Safety Equipment Corp., whose sales of $26.75 police helmets more than tripled in 1968, has jumped from $10 to $16. Other companies in the police market have seen their stocks rise...
LIKE bobbed hair, wedgie shoes and the free lunch, passenger trains have gone out of style. In the past decade, with the rise in air travel, railroad passenger business has dropped more than 40%, and 13 lines have stopped intercity service. Many travelers might return to the rails if they could be assured of a clean, comfortable and fast ride. Unwilling to give up on passengers entirely, a few U.S. railroads are now preparing to give them just that by introducing new trains that travel at speeds of more than 100 m.p.h...
...older and slower equipment that they will replace. But they can more than pay their way-provided that travelers support them at the ticket window. How many will? A study by Arthur D. Little Inc. estimates that on trains restricted to speeds under 120 m.p.h., rail passenger traffic would rise 6% on the New York-Boston run and only 1 % on the New YorkWashington run. If the speed limit were raised to 150 m.p.h., however, the number of passengers would jump 65% on the former and 18% on the latter...
...Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is Brecht's play to prevent Hitler by, or rather, future Hitlers. It is as if a public accountant were to attempt to sum up the nature of evil on a balance sheet. Hitler, Goebbels, Goring, Roehm, under various aliases are presented as Chicago gangsters who muscle into a vegetable trust (the depression-ravaged German industrialists) and bulldoze the honest but senile leading citizen (Hindenburg) into legalizing their protection racket...