Word: toils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poverty across thousands of miles of inaccessible jungle and remote highlands. The government's solution was Projeto Rondón (named after Brazilian Explorer Candido Mariano da Silva Rondón), which takes student volunteers into Amazonia and the northeast territory for month-long "vacations" of unpaid toil among the area's impoverished people...
...Blood, toil and sweat" or "Kiss...
Reserve Army. At the Willard, 600 full-time workers toil, helped by 1,300 part-time volunteers. No one scurries down the carpeted corridors; no voices are raised ("Miss Gaylord, tell the visitor precisely what you do here. About three minutes will do, thank you"). The Nixonites have put on magnetic tape more than 1,100,000 names and addresses of a reserve army of workers. National Director John Warner says his goal is 5,000,000 names by Nov. 5. Within 72 hours, Warner boasts, leased computers across the nation can crank out 5,000,000 letters...
...against authority. Most scorn long hair, and homosexuality horrifies them. With their ingrained respect for work, they take a dim view of people living on welfare. Perhaps most irritating to cops are the white antiwar protesters, most of them collegians who have rejected advantages that policemen themselves lacked and toil to give their own children. "The police consider the beatniks spoiled darlings of society," says Berkeley Economist Margaret Gordon, who also serves on the city council. "Their rage and frustration at them can break out uncontrollably even in the historically well-disciplined and polite Berkeley police department." What most upset...
Tall and lean (6 ft. 3 in., 195 lbs.), Helmsley keeps fit by frequent skiing. He often stays home in Westchester County for a day or two a week to toil over papers without interruptions. He keeps a direct phone line from home to his office switchboard, however, "so no one knows whether I'm calling him from the office...