Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republicans, who are still smarting from Shapp's campaign oratory. They are also determined to trim his proposed $3.3 billion budget for fiscal year 1972. If he wants an alternative tax, they insist, he will have to slash his spending by some $200 million. They now have the upper hand because Shapp cannot rely on the Democrats to line up solidly once again behind his tax program. Many resent the fact that Shapp, a Democratic insurgent, has cracked down on patronage throughout the state...
...table is not an isolated case. In its upper reaches, the art market has been afflicted with a kind of collective hysteria, a St. Vitus's dance of zeros across the checkbook: $5,544,000 for a Velasquez; a Titian, The Death of Actaeon, sold to Paul Getty for a little over $4,000,000; last week a Renoir, purchased for $16.80 a century ago, fetched $1,159,200 at a London auction. The list could be prolonged almost indefinitely, and will be: before the '70s are out, the first $10 million painting will probably have gone under...
...nine years ahead of Orwellian projections, every West German citizen may be officially known to his government by a twelve-digit number. The government has sent the Bundesrat (upper house of parliament) a proposal that would identify each person by six digits indicating his birth date, a seventh his sex and the century of his birth, the next four to distinguish him from others born on the same day, and the last a "control" number-which would make Chancellor Willy Brandt Number 181213 3 1234 5 or something very close to that. The number will follow a person from birth...
Still, many Poles are dissatisfied with the pace of Gierek's progress. While he has replaced many of the old bureaucrats in the upper echelon, one official noted, "Gierek will have more trouble with the corporals than the captains." The middle-and low-level party bureaucrats, who most often deal with the public, remain in office, as unhelpful and obdurate as ever. Polish newspapers daily receive letters from readers who complain that at the lower level, everything is as it was before...
...Kansas City hotel, a firm renting an entire upper floor threatens to break its lease when a tap class for 400 kids begins in the ballroom above. Skimpy rayon blouses and clunky shoes are all part of the fun. Tap dancing, after decades in the wings, is back on stage for professional dancers, amateurs, weight losers and an increasing number of people who simply like to dance...