Word: tolerate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have most women failed to find the key to dominance? The traditional male rationale is that females are physically and intellectually inferior, an argument without much basis in fact. In certain physical characteristics - toler ance of cold and pain, digital dexterity, longevity - women are superior to men.' In a new book, Men in Groups (Random House; $6.95), Sociologist Lionel Tiger of Rutgers University proposes an other explanation for male cultural domination. The survival of society, he argues, depends more crucially on man's affinity for man than on his reproductive affinity for women...
...long film career as a supersleuth, Charlie was portrayed by six actors, none of them Chinese.* Best remembered are Warner Oland, a Swede, who appeared in 16 features, and Sidney Toler, a Missourian, who lumbered woodenly through 22 pictures portraying Charlie as the still life of the party. Made on B-picture budgets, the Chan films show their age with simple-minded mysteries solvable in the second reel by any post-Bond youngster of eight. They also rely heavily on antique comic relief as subtle as a pig bladder. Charlie's No. 1 and No. 2 sons incessantly glue...
Despite November's sharp dip in unemployment, the total at year's end was still running half again as high as the 4% rate that the Administration deems toler able. More serious, there had been painfully little reduction of unemployment amongst those last-hired, first-fired groups of Americans: the unskilled, the Negroes, the very old and the very young, notably the high school dropouts. In 1961, unskilled and semiskilled laborers constituted less than a quarter of the U.S. work force-but almost half the long-term unemployed. In an increasingly automated and sophisticated economy, those workers...