Word: allows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both Wallaces made clear that Lurleen's election will keep the state on the same tack as before and allow George to pursue his 1968 presidential ambitions-though, Lurleen suggested, there might be a slight change of style in Montgomery. "It will be an attitude," said Lurleen, "reflecting an inner feeling of a wife and a mother. I shall be inclined to examine programs of each of our departments from the standpoint of how they affect the family...
...Bailey invited a Massachusetts assistant attorney general named John Bottomly to see DeSalvo in a mental hospital. There, DeSalvo tape-recorded confessions to the Boston Strangler murders, complete with so much detail that there could be little doubt that he had actual ly committed them. But before Bailey would allow his client to speak, Bottomly was made to agree that the confession would not be used against DeSalvo. What Bottomly was getting was the opportunity to close one of the most sensational murder investigations in Massachusetts history. What Bailey was getting in return was a substantiated record of a grisly...
...about improving relations between students and non-students by putting them all in the same pickle vis-a-vis the draft? First, what is the real relationship of the two groups in the situation described above? Making selection procedures for service more "equitable," doesn't allow for equity in service, Drafting students will increase the manpower pool (advantageously in an increasingly technical army), driving more ghetto people to the front. And most of the students' parents will be confident that their children will get the "safe" jobs...
...reaction in Europe was, to say the very least, negative. In 1962 Belgium raised its duties on U.S. chemicals within 48 hours after U.S. duties on sheet glass were increased. In 1954 the U.S. raised its tariff on imported watch movements. Since then, the Swiss have threatened to allow no significant tariff reductions unless the U.S. eased its stand. Now both countries are pleased, and the European Economic Community as a whole is more hopeful of concrete achievements at the conference tables in Geneva...
...been able to produce minidresses with throbbing hearts and pulsating belly stars, as well as pants with flashing vertical side seams and horizontal bands that march up and down the legs in luminous sequence. "They're hyperdelic transsensory experiences," says Diana. Potentiometers on the battery pack allow the wearer to produce from one to twelve flashes per second. The batteries themselves can be recharged by being plugged in, just like an electric toothbrush, and at full strength are good for five hours of flashing. "If a girl wants to flash for ten hours, she'll have...