Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British "ethologists" Christopher Brannigan and Dr. David Humphries [June 13], their work is charmingly pointless and absurdly pseudoscientific. They can, of course, make a lifetime out of cataloguing human facial expressions and bodily gestures, even in England. If they run out of material there, they can always shift their attention to Italy, where they could find enough to last through several lifetimes. I perhaps should not say that their work is pointless, for when they have completed the catalogue, a lover who finds his beloved smiling at him mysteriously can look up the smile in the Brannigan-Humphries Ethological Index...
...years ago, black mayoral candidates were elected in Cleveland and Gary, Ind., by small margins while Boston voters chose a moderate over a hardliner. The shift in popular sentiment has not been overwhelming, but just enough to make the difference...
After five years of urban disturbances, the U.S. has become inured to grim box scores: the number of people killed, injured and arrested, the dollars lost from looting and arson. Recently, however, there has been a shift toward a different pattern of violence. The old-style, spontaneous and omnidirectional ghetto riots-such as those in Watts, Detroit and Newark-have been declining since 1967. Instead, city after city has seen a series of small-scale, sometimes premeditated and often fatal armed clashes. "Race-related disorders," reports Brandeis University's Lemberg Center for the Study of Violence, rose from...
...Japan, 529,000 Coronas made between 1964 and 1968 have brakes that might malfunction because of rusting brake lines. Nissan executives also revealed that there are potential defects in 300,000 of their cars, including 39,000 of the 1969 Datsuns exported to the U.S. Other manufacturers listed shift levers that snap off, front suspensions that can be bent by rough roads, disk brakes that are not reliable and axle assemblies that burn...
BEHIND President Richard Nixon's decision to begin troop withdrawals, there is a concept for disengaging the U.S. from the war. It is more than a vision, but less than a blueprint. It is flexible, ready to be modified with the shift of events. What Nixon does next depends largely on the Communist response to his announcement last week at Midway. While there are perils m the choice he made, it may prove to be a significant step toward ending the longest war in American history