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Now, that order of affairs appears to be vanishing. As the committee notes, a "crisis," however unsatisfactorily defined, is acknowledged to be enveloping American cities, and interest in the conduct there of all institutions is decidedly on the upswing. By the appointment of the committee, Harvard acknowledged the importance of...
The precautions worked. It was not until the President had to inform U.S. allies of his impending decision that the rumors started to flow. Then the expectation of a bombing halt was frontpage news around the world. factories are operated by women. Monsoon rains and flooding made rice so scarce...
Detroit's move into the low-price field has come belatedly and grudgingly. Saddled with higher labor costs than their foreign competitors, U.S. automakers enjoy a far greater unit profit on bigger, jazzier cars than they could hope to on European-style ones. In order to make a go...
Between the abundant yuks and cackles squirms the sadistic little tale of Mortimer Lucas Griffin, an all-Canadian boy in London who has the misfortune to be born white, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant in a time when the values of disaffected minorities are on the upswing. Cocksure's premise...
While Lyndon Johnson will be able to pull some polls from his pocket to show that his popularity has begun an upswing after a long decline, Harold Wilson's notices are dominated by those embarrassing cartoons. The most telling one, run in the Daily Mail, was a biting play...