Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seoul. Last month the sort of student protests that brought down Rhee in 1960 erupted against Park. After rock-throwing clashes countered by tear gas, the police managed to restore order. Park's sudden announcement of his bid to stay in office may provoke new and more serious troubles. Politicians in the splintered opposition groups, students and intellectuals complain that Park has been in power too long and that his Democratic Republican Party is corrupt. Park himself remains honest, and he has been his country's most effective leader...
Though its workers become indifferent to chemical odors, Monsanto itself goes to the opposite extreme. As soon as any employee smells something bad, he is asked to dial A-I-R on the factory phone. If the problem is serious, expert "sniffers" hurry to the scene, ready to bottle the air, analyze it and repair the leak. Elaborate ductwork in one factory connects the points where noisome phenols might be emitted and whisks them to a scrubber system that removes the odor with absorbent filters. Since 1967, Monsanto has spent almost $3,000,000 to curb pollution in St. Louis...
Legitimate Fears The overriding social task for the U.S. is to achieve ra cial justice and heal the most serious breach in American so ciety since the Civil War. The hard fact is that this will demand sacrifices by all white Americans, including the lower middle class. But no permanent domestic accord can be reached if the white lower middle class remains per suaded that it is being called upon for more than its fair share of those sacrifices. The Kerner commission cited "white racism" as the principal cause of racial violence. Up to a point, the charge is just...
...training organizers to mobilize the middle class. Among other things, Alinsky suggests that the Internal Revenue Service should issue cards to people with family incomes of less than $12,000 a year; holders of such cards would be exempted from paying sales taxes. Beyond that fetching if improbable idea, serious reform might include a doubling of the federal income tax's $600 ex emption per dependent. The states could help lower-income communities by easing the ruinous burden of local school taxes, replacing them with a graduated statewide tax that might equalize city and suburban allocations for schools...
...rollicking cheer of his welcome, the Pope was in Africa on serious business. His uppermost concern, he declared even before leaving Rome, was the bitter, two-year civil war between Nigeria and Biafra, but the trip had first been planned around the Pope's dedication of a shrine to 22 African martyrs.* He also consecrated twelve new African bishops and offered a thoughtful analysis of the African Church's spiritual role before a pan-African conference of Catholic prelates that had been meeting all week. Above all, the visit reaffirmed the Pope's concern for the future...