Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Climbers: "In general the bachelor is viewed with circumspection, especially if he is not well known to the people appraising him." If he is still in his 20s, the personnel manager worries whether he is too busy with his love life to devote full attention to his job. "The worst status of all is that of a bachelor beyond the age of 36. The investigators wonder why he isn't married. Is it because he isn't virile? Is he old-maidish? Can't he get along with people?" Maybe he can't. "Failure to marry...
Western democracy was centuries in the creating. Teaching its fragile forms and subtle exercises to an alien culture would be a difficult experiment in the best of circumstances. To try to transplant democracy to Viet Nam in the year 1967 would seem a rash and reckless enterprise in the worst of places at the worst of times. Yet this year, South Viet Nam has promulgated a constitution written by a popularly elected Constituent Assembly. Voters in more than 4,000 villages and hamlets have gone to the polls to choose their own local officials. And last week the people...
...worst of these nonstrikes closed all classes in the 300,000-student Detroit system. There, Mrs. Mary Ellen Riordan, an old-style, fiery unionist who is president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers, led her 6,400 members in a fight for a $1,200 pay hike and a two-week cut in the 40-week school year. The city, which pays teachers from $5,800 to $10,000, offered $600 and a one-week school-year reduction. Governor George Romney ruled out any increase in state funds to boost salaries and insisted it was "intolerable that the education...
Flaring through parched timberland in the drought-stricken Pacific Northwest last week, the worst forest fires in more than half a century defied efforts to contain them. So far this year, some 1,800 fires have destroyed more than 105,000 acres of timber in Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Fire-fighting costs have climbed to $17 million; damage to the economy of Oregon alone is estimated at $5,000,000 a day. Because of the menace, most of the national forests in Montana, Or egon and Washington were closed to tourists and logging. President Johnson has declared Idaho...
Some Deputies, though, were grum bling that Mifrifi is an overdose of a very disagreeable medicine. They see hopeful signs that the worst of the recession may be over. The German stock market, dormant since the late 1950s, is thriving. In July and August, stock prices went up an average 19.8%. Un employment, probably the most sensitive problem for Germans since the Wirtschaftswunder all but erased it, dropped almost 5% in August, to 1.7% of the labor force, still an uneasy fig ure compared with the 1% of August 1966, but way down from a peak of 3.1% last February...