Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent report on the anti-poverty program, the U.S. Conference of Mayors charged that lack of "coordination" has "caused serious concern among those who have worked hard to develop umbrella-type agencies at the local level"-a not-so-subtle hint that the bosses want less interference from amateurs. Sargent Shriver, director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, is not about to abandon the concept of participation by the poor, not only because it is the law, but also because of his conviction that politicians and the deprived can work constructively together-as they have done successfully in Detroit, Cincinnati...
...York. Tax hikes have raised the price of a bottle of Scotch in Helsinki by 5% to a sobering $11 a fifth. In Helsinki, one British businessman complained to the Financial Times, eating out is "costing $84 a year in tips to cloakroom attendants for bowler hat and umbrella...
Martin Luther King, among other Negro leaders, has long since enunciated the notion that civil rights demonstrators should defy a particular law if they consider it "unjust" or "morally wrong." Under the umbrella of this idea that civil disobedience is O.K. when it is done in the name of civil rights, demonstrators have dumped garbage in New York's City Hall Plaza, urinated in a Montgomery, Ala., public square, staged a sit-in in a White House corridor, and stopped traffic on scores of street and highways by lying down on the pavement...
...always adaptable, have taken the new look in stride. While still turning out creams, lotions and sprays for the fastest and darkest tan around, they have smoothly introduced products that will prevent the tan. A generous application of the nongreasy, colorless Sun Bloc, by Elizabeth Arden, Skolex or Sun Umbrella, leaves the sportswoman as lily-white all over after 18 holes of golf as she was on the first...
...with hundreds of small bombs, explode after they have penetrated the jungle canopy, and Shrike and Bullpup air-to-ground guided missiles zero in on preselected targets. Ingeniously designed for low-flying missions is the Snakeye, a bomb that upon release opens an assembly of metal ribs like an umbrella's skeleton. The sudden increase of air resistance retards the falling bomb and thus permits the jet that drops it to escape the blast of detonation...