Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...wrinkling in laundry baskets last week as thousands of women across the country turned out for the first big demonstration of the Women's Liberation movement. The strike, on the 50th anniversary of the proclamation of the women's suffrage amendment, drew small crowds by antiwar or civil rights standards, yet was easily the largest women's rights rally since the suffrage protests...
...both by volunteers and prisoners. In less than three weeks, I had seen scores of Khmer soldiers with Sihanouk badges pinned to their chests. Wherever I had gone, there had been Khmers guiding the Vietnamese and in turn being trained by them. This was no phantom army. A civil war was building...
Married. Peter Sellers, 44, multi-faceted British comedian; and Miranda Quarry, 23, stepdaughter of Lord Mancroft, former Tory minister and director of the Cunard Steam-Ship Co.; he for the third time (previous wives: Actresses Anne Hayes and Britt Ekland), she for the first; in a civil ceremony in London...
Given the conditions, it is not surprising that Government work attracts more timeservers than ambitious gogetters. Yet the need for imaginative and energetic federal employees has never been greater. Though Congress remains reluctant to release its grip on civil servants, the present arrangements are likely to increase further the Government's difficulties as an employer...
...Civil Aeronautics Board last year granted the airlines $300 million yearly in fare increases, but that will barely meet the interest on the debt that the carriers have incurred to buy and service the new jets. Now the major carriers are asking for further fare increases of 4% to 10% on domestic flights. In addition, the airlines may well seek to drop some competing flights that take off at the same times, over the same routes, with mostly empty seats. Pan Am already has cut its West Coast-to-Honolulu flights from 80 a week to 40, and fired...