Word: soon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy also believes in returning to normalcy as soon as possible, as she demonstrated again last week. In the first few days following the accident, she gave up her usual visit to 7 a.m. Mass at St. Francis Xavier Church in Hyannis, and a priest came to the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport instead. She also passed up her daily round of golf and canceled an appearance at a church bazaar when Ted suggested that...
...lead to despair. Despair--or what would lead to it--is transmorgrified. It is the old ugly duckling routine: man, we are told, is ugly, the uglier the better, because (and this is where the inexorable logic of the human heart denies the overwhelming evidence of history) man is soon to become the swan. What kind of swan? Well, the speculation forms the basis for a whole body of literature, a literature whose only real unity is a pervasive belief in man's future transfiguration. Tolkein, Hesse, Arthur C. Clark, all the fountainheads of their respective cults, offer variants...
...only 50% as much as the West German and 25% as much as the U.S. worker. Japan's gross national product, at $142 billion last year, edged ahead of West Germany's largely because Japan has twice as many workers as West Germany. But this advantage may soon be weakened because Japan faces a severe labor shortage...
...themes-the conflicting needs of a Soviet Jew to retain his traditions and be a correct citizen. The Jewess of the title is a country widow whose son Boris, a Bolshevik official, resettles her in a Moscow apartment. He turns the apartment into a club for his comrades, and soon Moscow Cooperative Society sausage is replaced by the old lady's gefilte fish. The story ends abruptly with a neighbor's complaint about the smell of boiled fish throughout the building. The last lines hint at ethnic and possibly political troubles in the making...
...Harvard-sponsored office which provides legal said to low-income residents of Cambridge will soon be guided by a policy-making board composed largely of representatives of the community served by the office...