Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fate of the new constitution rests largely on how this issue is resolved. The aristocratic upper house of Parliament seems to favor the draft as it is now written, but the lower house is agitating for an entirely new document that would be much tougher on the monarchy, the church and the aristocracy. If debate drags on in Parliament, it is likely that the Armed Forces Committee will impose either a "temporary" new constitution or declare martial law. According to TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs, "It is beyond doubt that the military does not want to take even temporary official control...
Rent control is a prime bread and butter issue in Cambridge. The city's landlords are in a bind: The University and white-collar research and development firms are bringing in a lot of middle-and upper-middle-income families. If rent control were removed, these newcomers could bid up the price of housing and force out the lower-income groups. It is this kind of change in Cambridge's neighborhoods that Councilor Graham is fighting with all the supporters she can turn out at protest meetings...
...political activists tended to come from the upper strata of U.S. society. Some 43% of the activists earn over $15,000 a year, compared with only 22% of the nonactivists. The activists more often come from professional and executive backgrounds (42% v. 12% of the nonactivists), live in the big cities and suburbs (67% v. 52%) and are neither very young nor very old. Only 8% of the activists are under 25 years of age, while 4% are 65 or older; some 21% of the nonactivists are under 25, and 18% are 65 or older. Among other things the next...
...known simply as Marty to his Capitol Hill friends, a name that just would not fit his famous father, the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Senate Page Martin Luther King III, 16, has been spending his days running errands in the upper chamber and his evenings running the base paths as a softball player on the teams of Georgia Congressman Andrew Young and Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy. At times, it seems, the action is brisker on the mound than on the Hill. "It's been a great learning experience," says King diplomatically. "But after a while, when...
...hope for a fresh beginning, and with Ford, the hope for a new style of presidential leadership. After the long, obsessional preoccupation with Watergate and its claustrophobic underground works, most Americans felt last week as if they were emerging for the first time in a long while into the upper...