Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well justified. Competition for admission is fierce, especially to Tokyo and Kyoto universities, the Oxbridge-like axis that produces most of Japan's ruling establishment of businessmen, bureaucrats and politicians; according to one estimate, 20% of Japan's Diet (parliament) members and 30% of its corporation presidents are Tokyo U. alumni. Jammed with 1.5 million students, a 100% increase since 1960, the understaffed universities strike many youths as diploma factories geared to feed industry. Tokyo's Nihon University has 75,000 students; in its 7,000-student school of economics, there are but 27 professors...
President Marcos, under attack by his enemies for his pro-U.S. policies, remained aloof from the squabble. But he betrayed his uneasiness when he told a meeting of local officials about his fear of being killed by "subversive elements"-a notion probably nurtured by the prediction of a soothsayer that he will be assassinated before April...
...Pucker Up Buttercup. "Let everything bounce!" cries our instructress, a blonde Viking in pink tights who bounces without even trying. You bounce some more when, bypassing the triple-dip chrome barbells, you are harnessed to a rig called the wood roller massaging machine. Your reaction is immediate: "T-t-u-r-n-n i-t-t o-f-f-f!" BACK WALKING. All is calm in yoga class. "Sink deeply into the floor," whispers our guru, demonstrating the corpse position. "Float away." Class ends, but next to you, Herb Zimmerman, a Wall Street broker, is still floating...
...training, better housing, reliable transit systems, clean air and water-all these will require financing that only a rich and expanding economy can well afford. Considerable growth will be needed merely to cope with a swelling urban population. City planners figure that between now and the year 2000, the U S will have to double the number of its homes, office buildings, schools, parking ots, airports, garbage dumps and-unless human nature changes-its bars and jails...
...April action will focus on the slogan "The U. S. has nothing to negotiate in Vietnam," although the group plans related action on issues such as "black and third world liberation, women's liberation, and war corporations...