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More than three years of use have taken a heavy toll on the grass and shrubs in the Forbes Plaza park in front of Holyoke Center. Crowds have already ruined most of the grass by repeatedly trampling it, and have torn branches off the Japanese shrubs...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Grass, Shrubs In Forbes Plaza Will be Removed | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

...worn out psychically than whites, but I don't know how to measure that. They are always dealing with a lot of problems about race that must use up a lot of their energy. Even when you just walk into a room, race is always there, taking its toll." At the same time, says Poussaint, "black people always seem a bit ambivalent, the approach-avoidance, love-hate type of feelings." They are particularly ambivalent toward the dominant white society; they may be attracted by some of it and yet also despise much of what it stands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Black Hang-Ups | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

...their campaign to unnerve a society that they regard as corrupt and doomed. Schools, department stores, office buildings, police stations, military facilities, private homes-all have become targets. So far, miraculously, fatalities have been relatively few. One small slip, however -or one bloodthirsty bomber-could run up a death toll that could easily rival a week's total in Viet Nam. If the bomb threat continues, that is almost certain to occur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Bombing: A Way of Protest and Death | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...income rose only 1.7% last year to $110.9 million despite a 13% sales gain to $3.75 billion. Almost all of the economic figures that wiggle watchers study now point down. The statisticians have stopped saying "Wait until next month." Right now the price of cooling inflation is taking its toll of the nation's labor force and much of its industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Insistent Signals | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

Although avalanches have taken a severe toll this season, they undoubtedly would have been even more disastrous without such preventive efforts by the Federal Institute and warning organizations in other Alpine nations. Based on reports from 50 substations, which keep tab on such critical factors as the depth, density and temperature of the snow, the institute issues daily avalanche bulletins that are carefully observed by the Swiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The White Death | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

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