Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DISNEY VERSION, by Richard Schickel. Within a carefully prepared social, cultural and artistic context, Cinema Critic Schickel sees the late creator of Mickey Mouse and Disneyland as embodying the best and worst traits of the hard-charging entrepreneur...
...Worst of all, many were buried alive in groups of ten to 15, eyes open, mouths stuffed with cloth or dirt...
...reduce smog over cities, one of the most visible and worst forms of pollution, smog-causing power plants might be eliminated from densely populated areas. Why not generate electricity at the fuel source-distant oil or coal fields-and then wire it to cities? On the other hand, industrialization must not be taken to distant places that can be better used for other purposes. Industrializing Appalachia, for example, would smogify a naturally hazy region that settlers aptly named the Smokies. The right business for Appalachia is recreation; federal money could spur a really sizable tourist industry...
Last week that racial refrigeration nearly dissolved in smoke. Not far from Springfield Avenue, site of last sum mer's worst rioting, flames emptied a three-story tenement, then rapidly blew through the area. "Most of these houses are nothing more than reinforced card board," said one tenant. The worst fire in Newark's history razed 1½ blocks and left more than 500 residents with out shelter...
...Dunphy should persuade the Recreation Department to reverse this short-sighted stand. If he cannot do this, he should have an acceptable site to offer the School Committee by their next meeting, so that the portable classrooms can be constructed to give Houghton children, long the worst housed in the city, an adequate education for the next two years...