Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PEOPLE, by Chinua Achebe. Nigeria has produced a fine wit capable of taking the blundering chaos of a yet uncreated nation and making it the topical stage for a heartbreaking comedy...
Last week the cities, which have long complained of indifference at the hands of Congress and state legislatures, held the center of the stage as an immediate national concern. In Washington, a Senate subcommittee met to investigate what can be done about the worsening plight of the city and its poor, whose frustrations and resentments have erupted in a succession of bloody riots every summer since 1964. And Lyndon Johnson, who is acutely aware that his Great Society can hardly stand on a foundation of urban decay, took up the cry for action during a threeday, five-state trip through...
Pingpong & Plays. The bicycle race was only the beginning of the pre-election buildup. Ahead are pingpong tournaments, stage shows, swimming contests and shooting matches...
...Army and the Air Force were recruited to judge such sophisticated craft as a model Gemini-Titan constructed (in a total of 300 man-hours) on a 1-to-48 scale, complete with a two-man capsule. Sixteen-year-old Albert Kirchner of Bethpage, N.Y., woomphed off a three-stage Little Joe II-Apollo test vehicle that cost him 200 hours of labor. A few pioneers are even sending aloft mice and grasshoppers, which successfully parachute back to earth at the end of the ride...
Dillying & Dallying. The final settlement, accepted by a vote of 17,727 to 8,235, is retroactive to Jan. 1, gives the machinists a three-stage pay hike that will lift the earnings of the top-rated mechanics from $3.52 an hour to $4.08 an hour by May 1, 1968. The pact also boosts holiday pay from double time to double time and a half, calls for 50-an-hour company contributions (up to $2 a week) toward health and welfare plans, provides the union with what the airlines fought longest and hardest to avoid: an automatic further pay increase...