Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good citizen like Tiny Tim marry beautiful Vicky Budinger the same day that a 19 year-old dope fiend cheats his way to a pancake eating title. Dancer's Image was forced to surrender the top prize at the Kentucky Derby, and in view of this clear precedent, Quincy House should strip the pancake title from the Raccoon. Aunt Jemima would want it no other...
...extermination of the civilian population of My Lai is yet another clear example that man, and not the lion, is the king of the beasts...
...another taken its own look at the U.S. economy in the year just ending and in the year ahead. This week's cover story concentrates on the economy's two main worries: inflation and the possibility of recession. As we followed business news through 1969, it became clear that more and more economists were paying closer attention to the ideas of University of Chicago Professor Milton Friedman, who stresses the importance of money supply as the chief tool in fighting inflation and recession. Hence our year-end review features Dr. Friedman on the cover as it surveys...
Much more is involved than putting filters on chimneys and car exhausts and building new sewage plants. As the decade advances, it will become clear that if the ecological effort is to succeed, much of today's existing technology will have to be scrapped and something new developed in its place. The gasoline-powered automobile, at present the chief polluter of the air, will be made clean or it will be banned from many urban areas-a threat that some carmakers already recognize (see ENVIRONMENT). Alternatives are electric or gas-turbine-powered autos. Increasingly, it will be seen that...
Popular though the cause is, it is by no means clear that the struggle to save the environment will be won. The attitude, central to the modern mind, that all technology is good technology will have to be changed radically. "Our society is trained to accept all new technology as progress, or to look upon it as an aspect of fate," says George Wald, Harvard's Nobel-laureate biologist. "Should one do everything one can? The usual answer is 'Of course'; but the right answer is 'Of course...