Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Having participated in "The Thing in the Spring [April 26]" I am now absolutely certain that white people cannot hide a slum with a coat of paint-even if the suburbanites are the painters. The poor need low-cost housing-white America cannot paint that fact away...
...pressure for him to give in and take what Hanoi proffered, however unpalatable. Said New York's Senator Robert Kennedy while campaigning in Indiana for Johnson's job: "We need not worry about whether we will lose face by agreeing to a site we have not suggested. The important thing is to get the talks started. Each week of delay costs the lives of hundreds of men and further postpones our own hopes for domestic progress...
That was no exaggeration. For one thing, it is unclear whether Hanoi regards the forthcoming meeting as a propaganda ploy, a purely procedural preliminary to wider talks?or something more. In the past, the North Vietnamese have insisted that this round of parleys be held to resolve one issue and one issue only: whether the U.S. intends to call a complete, unconditional halt to its bombing of the North. Only after Washington agrees to do so, Hanoi has persistently maintained, will it then go on to formal negotiations with a full agenda. But in its note to Washington last week...
...come here. There must be hippie havens other than San Francisco." But flower beds are scarce all over. New York City's East Village scene now seems as loveless as that in the Haight. As Los Angeles' underground newspaper Open City declared: "Hippies are dead-the whole thing went out to lunch...
...thing, the impact of human pollutants on nature can be vastly amplified by food chains, the serial process by which weak creatures are typically eaten by stronger ones in ascending order. The most closely studied example is the effect of pesticides, which have sharply improved farm crops but also caused spectacular kills of fish and wildlife. In the Canadian province of New Brunswick, for example, the application of only one-half pound of DDT per acre of forest to control the spruce budworm has twice wiped out almost an entire year's production of young salmon in the Miramichi...