Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CASE YOU'RE IN LOVE (Atco) finds Sonny and Cher, that wildly caparisoned, dank-haired first family of folk-rock, crooning simple love ballads to each other. "You look to me like misty roses/ Too soft to touch but too lovely to leave alone," sighs Sonny, closing his eyes to her op-art bellbottoms. "You and me is what I see and that's the way it's gonna stay," chimes Cher. Meanwhile, "The drums keep pounding rhythm to the brain...
Unthinkable. Actually, no would-be candidate can avoid taking a stand-and with 67% of the public on record in favor of continued bombing of North Viet Nam, a soft stance may amount to a political death wish. Oregon's Republican Senator Mark Hatfield, who is articulate, attractive and only 44, has virtually ruled himself out of presidential consideration-at least for 1968-with his dovelike stance. Bobby Kennedy, who led Lyndon Johnson in popularity polls last October, has fallen behind in the latest samplings, partly because of his criticism...
...subtle move giving substance to that message, the U.S. offered to boost its dollar aid to poor countries through the World Bank only if an increased share of the bank's loans was used to buy U.S. products. Moreover, Washington insisted that the U.S. share of such "soft loan" largesse be trimmed from its present 42% to 40%. However unpopular abroad, such restrictions would minimize the strain foreign aid places on the U.S. payments deficit...
...problems in paradise. While luxuries are cheap, most necessities are outrageously expensive. Per capita income is only $2,100-about $600 less than on the mainland. Yet, since most staples must be imported, prices average 25% over those Stateside. Electric bills average $45 monthly, eggs cost 99? a dozen, soft drinks average 75? for a large bottle-making the soda as costly as the Scotch. Housing is astronomically high: a fair-sized lot with a modest home can run as high as $75,000. Bad roads are made even more hazardous for tourists by the custom of driving...
...Germany, it appears as if the war were only yesterday." The countryside, with its villages, horse-drawn carts and unmechanized farms, looks as if the clock had been turned back 30 or 40 years. The highways are potholed and traffic ranges from light to nonexistent. The blue haze of soft-coal smoke seems to shroud the cities, adding to the ever-present smells of cabbage and disinfectant. The cautious satirists in East Berlin's Distel (Thistle) cabaret suggested one socialist solution for some of East Germany's ills: nose plugs...