Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator Joe McCarthy. In 1957, he was transferred to Manila, where he helped to mend the deteriorating state of relations between the U.S. and the Philippines and became known as one of America's top diplomatic troubleshooters. When France and America seemed to be drifting apart in the early 1960s, President Kennedy appointed him Ambassador in Paris...
Kenyan Fragments. But in the early 1960s, a rare display of unity among anthropologists convinced Leakey that he had better reevaluate the classification of certain fossil bones. Most of his colleagues had become persuaded, Leakey says, that a collection of bone and teeth fragments he had found under a Kenya farm in 1961 and other fragments discovered in 1934 in the foothills of the Himalayas represented similar species of manlike beings that lived between 10 million and 14 million years ago-in the Upper Miocene. In the hopes of finding their ancestors, Leakey in 1965 began a search of museum...
...Dictaphone Corp., pretty much of a stand-pat company from its birth in 1923 until it finally began diversifying in the early 1960s, reached outside the ranks to name Honeywell, Inc. Vice President and Dictaphone Director Walter W. Finke, 59, as president. Under outgoing President Lloyd M. Powell, 66, who now moves up to chairman, Dictaphone opened new overseas markets, branched into the temporary-office-help field (DOT Services) and, through acquisition of two smaller companies, grabbed 7% of the office-furniture market. The arrival of Finke, who started Honeywell's data-processing division from scratch...
...Latin American country that the Communists have tried hardest to subvert is oil-rich Venezuela. With weapons and funds smuggled in from Cuba, the Castroite Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación National (FALN) in the early 1960s terrorized both Caracas and the countryside, murdering policemen, blowing up pipelines, and bombing department stores. Two years ago, the rebels began to lose their momentum and holed up in the hills. Last month a bombing here, a machine-gunning there seemed to signal a return to the old pattern. Last week came a climax of sorts: in separate ambushes, FALN gunmen assassinated...
...what they should and yet hold down their property and sales taxes. While the plan would penalize rich states to benefit poor ones, Heller contends that it would serve the cause of "creative federalism." Heller believes that his idea is no more radical than the earlier changes of the 1960s. Conservatives now recognize the need for frequent Government manipulation of taxes, spending and subsidies, while liberals like himself, says Heller, have a new understanding of the role of private investment Practically no one any longer sees danger in rising federal debts and rising wages-as long as the economy grows...