Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hurrah for former Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy. Respect is the magic word. And respect, sadly enough, comes to most mentalities through rough self-interest policies. Amazing? Yes, but unfortunately true...
What they have in common, is not necessarily their background. Alwyn Lee was born in Australia, only a few months from the time that John Cheever was born in Massachusetts, and put down his roots in that rough-and-ready land. He graduated with honors in philosophy from the University of Melbourne, became a newspaperman, and with his wife, Essie, came to the U.S. in 1939. They are a rare husband-wife combination on the TIME staff; she is chief of editorial researchers...
...Milwaukee and elsewhere, Wallace's reception was less than exuberant. In Oshkosh he was greeted by a jeering band of 400 college students. He endured rough questioning at a meeting with 17 Protestant clergymen. An overflow crowd of 2,000 curiosity-seekers jammed the civic auditorium to hear him preach against the civil rights bill-and to raise placards reading "Go Home, Bigot" and "Keep Your Dogs in Birmingham...
...March, 17 teams had averaged more than 85 points a game; last year only two teams did. Seven players banged in more than 30 points a game this season; last year none did. And seldom has a season seen such fast, rough, yet precise play...
This week the U.A.W.'s convention at Atlantic City will debate how much to ask for, and the likelihood is that the union will demand a package increase of about 5%, much more than the rough 3.2% guideline that the Administration suggested in January as reasonable and noninflationary. One of the Administration's greatest concerns now is that other labor chiefs will demand at least as much as Reuther. That-combined with a big increase in purchasing power, a big federal deficit and a continuing policy of easy money-could bring on inflation...