Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need to love? The camera wonders as it wanders through the city. Change and decay, Antonioni seems to say, in all around I see. A nurse wheels a baby carriage down a street. An old man watches it with haunted eyes. Headlines threaten atomic destruction. Water leaks from a barrel, runs into a sewer and is seen no more. In a park a fountain suddenly fails. The day fails. In the darkness a single street lamp burns, far away and cold. Then suddenly the lamp burns in the center of the screen, immense and pulsing, urgent, the light of life...
When the dispute began to threaten America's effective participation in the 1964 Olympics, President Kennedy intervened. He called on both sides to cooperate and apointed General Douglas MacArthur to arbitrate the quarrel...
...hook. "A small town." says Coach Harland Svare of the Rams, "is the best place in the world to be if you're on a winning team-and the worst if you're losing." Recalls one Packer veteran: "Green Bay was like Siberia. Other coaches used to threaten to send their players here...
...overall tax reform in a "fiscal fitness program for the '60s." Such reform would presumably correct some of the flagrant flaws in the present tax laws-in such areas as depletion allowances, retirement income exemptions and capital gains. But if political considerations threaten tax reform, the Administration apparently will settle for just tax reductions. In any event, there now is little hope of achieving a complete, detailed tax reform...
Commenting on the silence of the C.L.G.S. oposition, one Faculty member pointed out last night that most of the men who dislike the new policy have made plans to block it in Departments. The way they could do this, he said, would be to threaten to give an E in tutorial to any student who seems likely to take advantage of some of the liberalizations of the new policy...