Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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At a cost of nearly $1 per citizen, the 1970 census counted 204,765,770 Americans, including nearly 1,600,000 servicemen and civilians now living abroad. The population has grown some 24 million since the 1960 calculation. But the increase-13.3%-was the lowest in any decade since the...
Every presidency develops its own trappings of status. Under Richard Nixon, the favored few who travel on Air Force One cherish their blue, Air Force special issue flight jackets emblazoned with the presidential seal and personal silver-and-black name tags. All the President's top aides-Henry Kissinger...
Lately there is a new symbol of status. Free of charge, Washington's C & P Telephone Co. has installed ten of its still experimental "picturephones" in the offices of the highest presidential advisers. The gadgets, small TV sets attached to the telephone, allow the presidential elite to dial-in...
Apart from broadcasting status, the picturephones contribute little to the smoother workings of Government. To Egghead Kissinger, they are a technological mystery. He will not call on the device, but does take calls, with a bit of fuming and fussing as he tries to work the thing. "Technology gone mad...
What color is Santa Claus? Some U.S. department stores are installing black Santas for their black customers. In Detroit's J.L. Hudson emporium, mothers and children have their choice of lining up for eight white Santas or two black Santas. But 75% of the blacks have chosen the white...