Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...trouble, Ball says, started with "these civil rights demands" - namely, one-man, one-vote in Ulster elections, more equitable allocation of housing and jobs, and disbanding of the predominantly Protestant auxiliary police force known as the B-Specials. Now, Ball insists, the Catholics are "hell-bent" on unification with the Irish Republic to the south, which is not only poorer than the North but also Catholic-dominated...
...Humor is civil war, even to the point of paralysis, between the part of man who wants to play God and the part of man who knows a real God when he sees one-and he is not that pompous character staring back from the mirror with egg stains on his shirt and his fly half-zipped, asking "What's so funny...
Haugh appealed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on the ground that flag-desecration laws restrain a demonstrator's free speech and are thus unconstitutional. The court avoided that issue, which civil libertarians are now attempting to bring before the Supreme Court. Even so, the Pennsylvania tribunal has just reversed Haugh's conviction...
...first polio vaccine; and Françoise Gilot, 48, longtime (1944-54) model and mistress of Pablo Picasso, an artist of repute in her own right, whom Salk first met a year ago while she was visiting friends in California; both for the second time; in a civil ceremony in Paris...
...Economic Drain. Veterans Administration payments constitute another long-lived but little-noted expense of every war since the Civil War. This year they will add up to about $8.9 billion in disability pensions, education aid and medical care. Since 1965, costs of VA medical care have climbed by $500 million; almost all of the rise is attributable to the Viet Nam War. And forthcoming costs to the nation amount to a large mortgage on the future. Economist James Clayton of the University of Utah estimates that the total cost of pensions for Viet Nam veterans alone will eventually reach...