Word: stillnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family background may have made the Soviets especially wary of him. His father, David Shub, 81, is a Russian-born Social Democrat who was expelled from Russia by Czarist officials during the liberal agitation before the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. Settling in the U.S., the elder Shub wrote Lenin, still one of the authoritative books on the revolutionary's life. When ordered out of Russia by a Foreign Ministry official last week, the younger Shub replied: "My father was also twice forced to leave the country by the Russian authorities of the day, and that didn't help...
Time for Reevaluation. Under such circumstances, the matadors have lost their pride, and their skills have grown dull. A few, like Linares before his banishment, may still be offered $7,000 for one fight. Most of Spain's 193 active matadors, however, have grumblingly accepted 25% fee cuts in return for comfortable bulls and a guaranteed minimum number of appearances. At the same time, they have reduced the ritual you loved so much to a modicum of spasmodic passes. The capes that once came alive in flashing veronicas across the sunlight are seldom used today...
...junta confiscated most of the available assets of the International Petroleum Co., a subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey). This should have brought into force the Hickenlooper amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act, which would cancel all aid funds, but Washington held off because the matter was still in litigation, with I.P.C., backed on principle by the State Department, demanding just compensation. The Peruvians maintain that they will pay such compensation once they collect the far larger amount that they claim is owed by I.P.C. for "illegal" extraction...
This picture can be misleading; while significant, it still involves only a minority. The yearning for "meaningful" careers (in the current cliche) is largely confined to the upper-middle-class white students. The majority of students remain reasonably content with traditional careers. In general, the children of blue-collar workers and Negro students strive to attain the very jobs that many privileged whites disdain. Most students have no special quarrel with the profit motive, and an estimated 30% of all graduates go into business. As a senior at Columbia University puts it: "I think it's great that...
Shocking? Not really. Coed dorms are still something of a novelty in the East, but on scores of campuses elsewhere in the U.S., young men and women have been sharing dormitories for several years. "It is a fair assumption that coed living really is the trend of the future," says John Houseley, director of Pomona College's Oldenborg Hall, a mixed residence that was started three years ago. At U.C.L.A. the future has already arrived: there is only one single-sex dormitory left-and even it will soon be converted into a coed dorm for graduate students...