Word: trend
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Safety Valve. On many of the smaller islands, the trend is the same. In Grenada, a self-governing British state. Prime Minister Eric Gairy proposes to deal with rising militancy by reintroducing the cat-o'-nine-tails for arson and other serious offenses. In independent Barbados, the government passed a law banning public meetings that stir up racial hatred and proposed a similar law for statements by members of Parliament. It also called off a conference of U.S. and West Indian Black Power leaders early in July. After radical workers and students sacked Willemstad, capital of the island...
...Cuban missile crisis in 1962, most Americans have given nuclear Armageddon little thought. A number of big companies, among them Jersey Standard and Shell Oil, went to great expense a few years back to secure bombproof alternate headquarters for use in case of nuclear attack. Now that trend is fading. The Bekins moving company, which recently pitched to more than 60 big California companies a $10 million facility it plans to build ("the most advanced corporate survival center yet designed." says the brochure), has so far recruited not a single shelter seeker. This may signify that the nuclear nightmare...
George Fischer, president of the National Education Association, described the plight of black educators, who have been subjected to wholesale demotion or dismissal throughout much of the South. The N.E.A. estimates that at least 5,000 principals and teachers have been affected since desegregation began in 1954. The trend may accelerate during the Justice Department's current integration push. The Mississippi Teachers Association, a black group, claims that 1,500 teachers who worked in the state this past school year will be unemployed next fall...
With Hollywood scrambling to exploit every current trend, "soul" movies were probably inevitable. Enter Cotton Comes to Harlem, a meretricious thriller that should offend the sensibilities of any audience-black or white...
Ever since four blithe spirits from Liverpool turned the world upside down, the most visible pop singers have been those who have dealt with contemporary moods and issues. Simultaneously trend setters and chroniclers of an era, they sing of grass, alienation and oppression. The very names of those who have made it are slogans of rebellion: the Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Wayne Newton . . . Wait a minute-Wayne Newton? Isn't he that big, baby-faced panda, that tenor with adenoidal arrest and the grin that seems to tell you he just made all-state halfback at Waycross High? Where...