Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...April 19] seems vaguely familiar. Hasn't that same broken record been grinding away ever since legs first emerged from the hobble skirt? In the time from flapper fringe to miniskirt, legs may indeed have lost their shock value, but a well-turned leg still turns heads. What short skirts have done for the leg man, see-through blouses may yet do for the more high-minded girl watcher...
...have marked some of his foreign policy pronouncements in recent years. Later he even acknowledged that perhaps "we overspoke ourselves" in promising to "go any place, any time" to negotiate with North Viet Nam. While he predicted that preliminary talks with the Communists would get started "in a very short time," the delicate diplomatic situation of the moment gave Humphrey a welcome opportunity to concentrate on domestic matters...
With only 129 seats in the 259-seat House of Commons, Trudeau's Liberals are two votes short of a majority and therefore - like Canada's two previous governments since 1962 - dependent upon minority party support to get legislation passed. But the latest Gallup poll gives the Liberals 42% of the vote, their highest rating in 27 months, compared with 34% for the opposition Tories. Besides, though he will be with out a Parliament, Trudeau will continue as a highly visible Prime Minister until the elections...
...edge of Harlem, Columbia is an academic enclave surrounded by poverty and decay. Its students, a large number of them subway commuters, are both liberal and well integrated. But the school itself, while earnestly trying to deal with the urban ills in its neighborhood, has fallen far short of the expectations of either its students or its neighbors...
...limited to the manipulation of the great technocracy; business involves too much application and too little creative thinking. They feel that the role of manager will not give them rewards in line with their intellectual abilities, that they will not be free to invent and discover. In short, business is not, in their opinion, in line with the way the college has taught them to think...