Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...hands from Tory Marples to the Fabian Socialist intellectuals agree, Britain's prime social problem is not too many people but too many people in the wrong places. Like the U.S. itself, but more acutely, Britain in 1960 is a victim of "urban sprawl," the planless mushrooming of cities. Says Oxford Economist Colin Clark: "There is an area in central England, an oblong, coffin-shaped area, which includes more and more of our population ... If things go on as they are, we shall soon all be in the coffin...
...Chase, if you are so earnest an advocate of the liberal concept of the public interest, you are a member of the wrong political party. Nonetheless, I am bound to say that the Republican Party is fortunate in having so able an apologist. It needs the best. --Derek Torrey Winans '61, President, Harvard Young Democratic Club...
Kishi was right about the quick victories (Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines), wrong about being able to get a quick peace. As the fortunes of war worsened, he reacted just as had his Choshu clansmen in the affair of Shimonoseki Strait. At a Cabinet meeting in April 1944 he told Tojo: "Saipan is Japan's lifeline. If Saipan falls, surrender. It is the silliest thing on earth to keep fighting after that." Tojo shouted angrily: "Don't poke your nose into the affairs of the supreme command!" Thirteen days after the bloody U.S. conquest of Saipan, Tojo...
...companies involved reacted as if the FTC had attacked mother and apple pie. Fairfax Cone, who had a hand in creating the Pepsodent commercial and who sternly told admen three weeks ago to clean up "dishonest advertising," had a novel retort: "To me it wasn't wrong, and I think I have as high ideals as anybody around. I believe in the truth." Colgate-Palmolive announced that its shaving commercial was only "a technique used to overcome photographic difficulties," and that "sandpaper can be shaved." Standard declared that "the presence of the gems in Blue Bonnet is an established...
...Twilight Zone (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). The department-store buyer's vaca tion was supposed to be a pleasant cross country car trip, but somewhere, as The Hitchhiker shows, she made the wrong turn. With Inger Stevens...