Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCab was wrong. More than half of the scores interviewed by the Summer News could identify Gov. Agnew. Several even praised nominee Nixon for his wise choice. "I'm delighted," said one Belmont housewife walking past the hippies sitting in Forbes Plaza, "I think the Republican Party has a death wish. Nixon apparently was trying to help that wish along...
...Fulgencio Batista by attacking Santiago de Cuba's Moncada Army barracks. The chancy venture was squashed, and half of the partisans were killed. Among those imprisoned was 25-year-old Fidel Castro, a lawyer turned revolutionist, who drew a 15-year sentence. In an act more merciful than wise, Batista granted Castro amnesty after only two years. In 1956, after a brief Mexican exile, Fidel was back in Cuba with another guerrilla band; but this time he was not to be caught. Two years later, he ruled Cuba...
...Century. But most will not. Nor does electronic rechanneling of the old recording into stereo solve the problem. "To put it bluntly, electronic stereo is presently nothing but sonic vandalism, a fact recognized and even privately admitted by the record companies themselves," says High Fidelity magazine.* Thus wise collectors are buying up the choice items still available. Among them...
...please, said Edmund Burke, is no more possible than to love and be wise. That aphorism applied in the U.S. last week as the 10% federal income tax surcharge went into effect after months of acrimony between the President and Congress. It had long been widely acknowledged that a tax increase was necessary to stifle inflation. The White House excepted, agreement was fairly general that a sizable cutback in government spending was also in order. A $6 billion cut was the congressional price for the tax bill, and both came to pass. The question last week was whether the combination...
Still, the trend is in that general direction. "Our ultimate plan," says Wise, "is to develop a system that would pay all auto-accident victims except a few flagrant violators, such as hit-and-run drivers...