Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What would take up the slack and yet provide the proper status? Economics Professor Robert Browne of Fairleigh Dickinson University had both a grievance and an ingenious thought. As he and other black militants see it, whitey has dominated vice in the U.S. for too long. Recommending that Negroes get their fair share of that action, he declared: "Racketeering, prostitution and the numbers, if they are to continue, must be put into the hands of the black community." How that might be accomplished without upsetting another militant minority, the Mafia, was left for a subsequent conference to discuss...
...social tolerances within which economic policy must operate," says Chairman Paul McCracken of the Council of Economic Advisers. "The cold-turkey treatment of sharp deflation is not available in the modern world." If the spring fever proves resistant, the Government's cures should, along with the anticipated seasonal slack, begin to show some results by summer...
...gain in output and increased exports this year. Already, about one ton of steel in every 15 sold in the U.S. is made in Japan, and Washington's urging has brought a Japanese agreement to reduce exports to the U.S. by nearly onefourth. The slack will be taken up in other markets, notably in Southeast Asia and Europe, where competition is expected to be fierce...
Cornell's Ken Dryden was unbeatable in the ECAC finals, and he managed to blank Harvard's explosive line. Surprisingly, the second line of Jack Turco, Chip Otness, and Dwight Ware--the team's lowest scoring regular forwards--picked up the slack by teaming for Harvard's two scores. This line does not have the stickhandling finesse of the other two trios, but its scrappy forechecking style may upset Denver's powerful offense...
Where? Officer Candidate Schools could be expanded to take up the slack; in its present form, though, OCS is basically a cram course, and the graduates show it. Only the Marine Corps, which shuns ROTC, is currently satisfied with turning collegians into officers solely at OCS bases and summer camps. For other branches, the service academies would have to be enlarged enormously. West Point, for example, will turn out only 750 second lieutenants this year, v. the 17,000 second lieutenants who will graduate from Army ROTC...