Word: crossroads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Never has an election produced "code words" that so clearly define the issue. "Cambridge Jobs for Cambridge People" and "Citizen Participation." Read the former, "vote for me, I'll appoint my friends;" read the latter, "a process to plug up the patronage pipeline," How did we arrive at this crossroad...
...million Yugoslavs the fastest growing economy in Eastern Europe. In major cities, modern, wide-windowed apartment complexes dot the skyline, autos clog the streets and stores are stocked with television sets, radios and kitchen appliances. Lately, however, the system has developed enough problems to bring the nation to a crossroad at which its leaders must decide how much further they are willing to go toward a freer economy. Some are prepared to go all the way to the establishment of a Communist stock and bond market...
Today Le Petit Vatican-two gray concrete buildings with corrugated roofs -sits at a rural crossroad in the French village of Clémery. One building is the 200-ft. "Basilica of Glory," austere on the outside but stuffed with plaster piety inside: battalions of pink and blue angels, scores of polychromed saints, gauze curtains and blue and beige carpets. The make-believe Pope has only a modest Curia -ten "cardinals" and "bishops" and a covey of giggling "nuns": most of the followers are or have been Roman Catholic priests and nuns...