Word: size
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shotgun squads forced the detective agency to hire retired cops, and the private security force that started at 70 now numbers fewer than 50 men. Nonetheless, the vigilantes have already earned their keep. Their presence has forced the city government to reconsider long-standing pleas to increase the size of the regular police force. And in the first three weeks after the guards had been hired, the three dry-cleaning chains suffered not a single robbery...
...pictures a year. But no fewer. "You have to do that many," he figures, "if you want to stay in the mainstream." "I'll never retire," he vows, "until they just don't want me any more." Clearly, he will die with those unfillable size 11 boots on. "I want to continue to be a worthwhile citizen," rasps the Duke, "till the man upstairs knocks on the door...
...Michigan case, Grand Rapids citizens sought to have the Kent County school board reapportioned. The board's five members are chosen by elected delegates-one each from 39 local school districts of unequal size. With 55% of the county's population, Grand Rapids has only 2.5% of the delegate voting power. Even so, Douglas approved the system because the board posts are "basically appointive rather than elective." Also approved: a Virginia Beach, Va., plan that gives each of seven equal districts a resident city councilman but requires that they be elected by citywide ballot. Finding no "invidious discrimination...
Still, the Treasury's once vast hoard of the metal shrank by mid-May to a mere 485 million oz. (a quarter of its 1960 size) as the Government was forced to stick to its policy of selling silver at a low-pegged price. For if the price of silver rises above $1.40 per oz., it becomes theoretically profitable to melt silver dimes, quarters and pre-1966 half dollars for their metallic content...
...academy. Now it is moving out of the academy-out of college lit courses and esoteric coteries-back to where it was when minstrels sang their verses in the marketplace. It exists once again in an ambiance of instant feeling. Poets are declaiming their works before large, theater-size audiences in the cities and on the campuses. Government grants, foundation funds and universities with chairs for poets-in-residence are all conspiring to strengthen or at least amplify their voices in the world at large. Their poetry books trip ever more briskly off the presses, and their phonograph recordings feed...