Word: wonderers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...witness Republican leaders [May 2], such as Finch and Nixon, supporting, and even augmenting types of public assistance which the G.O.P. would clearly have labeled "Communistic" 25 years ago (some yet do so) I have renewed faith that the world is becoming a more humane place. However, I wonder if these programs, and the people they were designed to help, might not be much better off today if the Republicans had come to their aid earlier with the same verve and enthusiasm...
...amused by your article on Beate Uhse's West German "sporting goods" stores [May 2]. But no wonder the poor gal doesn't try to sell her wares here. She would be hauled into jail on her first day, while next door an American sporting goods store, selling enough guns to kill every cop in Chicago, would be within...
...Aragvi restaurant and the popular Seventh Heaven, a new yet already shabby revolving restaurant 700 ft. up the 1,600-ft.-high Moscow television tower. The Bolshoi Theater is sold out weeks in advance, and outside the Moscow Circus people queue up in hopes of last-minute cancellations. No wonder the two-day weekend touched off a round of heavy drinking that alarmed officials and brought out the preacher in newspaper editors...
...small investor in Europe, the rule has long been to put up and shut up. He could buy a company's stock, but for him to complain about the company's management was not done. No wonder, therefore, that last week Giorgio Valerio, chairman of Italy's Montecatini Edison, was in a state of shock. At the annual meeting of Italy's largest private company, the long-frustrated small stockholders angrily showered Valerio with a mixed barrage of small coins, epithets and crumpled copies of the company balance sheet. Their urgent message was that...
...that they want to get on with their research, and matters of administration and student trouble interfere with their work. A study by the Brookings Institution found that faculty members spend three to four times as much time on administrative work as they would desire ideally.y It is little wonder, then, that faculty members who grow tired of student unrest simply pick up and leave the university where they have been working, trying to find a calmer place. This has happened most dramatically at Berkeley, at Columbia, and recently at Cornell. There are other reasons too, of course, especially...