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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forced not to change society, but to struggle with it in order to maintain the identity I worked 22 years to establish. With all life's past glories and associations reflected in my maiden name, I find it difficult to glow with pride when addressed by an unfamiliar term that was tacked on much like a cattle brand to accommodate a society that still regards women as possessions. Nor can I delight in the inconvenience and expense caused when driver's license, bank accounts, stocks and legal records must be rewritten to match a new legal label. Most...
West, a squad leader in a platoon commanded by Lieut. Jeffrey La Cross, followed Calley's platoon into My Lai. "Everyone was shooting," he says. "Some of the huts were torched. Some of the yanigans [his term for young soldiers] were shooting kids." In the confusion, he claims, it was hard to tell "mama-sans from papa-sans," since both wear black pajamas and conical hats. He and his squad helped round up the women and children. When one of his men protested that "I can't shoot these people," West told him to turn the group over to Captain...
Under the bill, divorce would be permitted for such specific reasons as insanity, long-term imprisonment, incest, or if a couple has been separated for five years. This last provision, known already as the "piccolo divorzio" or "little divorce," would aid as many as 1,600,000 Italians estimated to be living in marital sin. It would directly benefit the 500,000 "white widows," whose husbands left Italy to work, then got divorced and remarried abroad...
...even higher returns to keep ahead of prices. (Some mortgage lenders now grumble that they are "stuck" with loans made years ago at interest that seemed high then but is low now.) The end result of this process would be that investors would refuse to supply as much long-term credit as the nation needs to build needed houses, schools and other facilities...
...they are to raise the cash that they need. Sidney Homer and Economist Henry Wallich, among others, have seriously suggested that mortgage and bond issuers may have to pay variable interest rates tied to movements in consumer prices. Some experts also expect a swing from long to short-term financing. There are signs of that happening already. Executives of Hawaiian Electric Co., for example, last month wanted to-sell $18 million worth of 30-year bonds but, after consulting with underwriters, decided instead to sell an issue maturing in only five years...