Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brooks was not commenting on the races which brought the Harvard Eight a trip to Mexico City in October and a chance to compete for the United States in the world-wide athletic games. He was talking about the strain of coming back after a layoff to the hard work which the whole team faced for many months ahead. The race had been worth it, but the respite wasn...
...Patrick Murphy, 47, was criticized for not being tougher on rioters in the disturbances that followed the death of Martin Luther King. Yet Murphy's restraint not only kept down the death toll (only ten died) but also prevented a major outbreak from turning into a city-wide conflagration. In seven months, he has done more to modernize the creaky District force than previous directors did in years. Last week new guidelines were handed down to curb indiscriminate arrests for "disorderly conduct"; the President's riot panel discovered that just such arrests sparked many of the disturbances...
...theories of economics follow social facts. Once a free store is assumed, human wanting and giving, needing and taking become wide open to improvisation...
...events make Wall Street squirm as much as a public investigation of its affairs. Last week, as the Securities and Exchange Commission opened a wide-ranging inquiry into the fees charged to stock investors, it began to look like a warm-under-the-collar summer for the New York and American Stock Exchanges. For the first time since such rates were devised in 1792, the markets must publicly defend a system of minimum commissions that the SEC contends is capricious and unfair...
L.B.J. on a Cross. The zaniest segment of the show is reserved for the palace known as Schone Aussicht. Its entry hall is a jungle of huge works that illustrate the razzmatazz marriage of fantasy and technology. Peter Briining's 19-ft.-wide tangle of highways flashes with lights. Robert Rauschenberg's environment is a booth with eight panels, controlled by photoelectric cells so that they open and close for the gallerygoer. For some time now, he has been tinkering with art that moves in response to the viewer...