Word: among
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decorations, however, could not paper over Rumania's deep disputes with the Soviet Union. As a result, the congress turned into an extraordinary confrontation between Rumania's policy of forming ties with the West and Moscow's rigid Brezhnev Doctrine that insists on obedience and conformity among the Soviet Union's East Bloc neighbors...
...White House state dinner, Nixon invited many of the Americans who helped guide West Germany in the immediate postwar period. Among the guests were General Lucius Clay, postwar U.S. Military Governor of Germany, John McCloy, first civilian High Commissioner, and Dean Acheson, Secretary of State during the Berlin airlift. Kiesinger reminisced with the old German hands as the Marine chamber orchestra played Strauss waltzes...
...postwar history, Italy last week had a government again. It was headed by Mariano Rumor, the same man who 32 days earlier had seen his coalition of Socialists and Christian Democrats fall apart (TIME, July 18). Un able to reconstruct the old relationship because of a schism among the Socialists, Rumor this time built a monocolore, or one-party government from his own Christian Democrats...
...reckless way, this planet before long will become an unsuitable place for human habitation." At Washington University, Commoner now heads the first of a series of environmental health institutes being established at major campuses by the U.S. Public Health Service. He envisions sweeping changes in the near future. Among them: the outlawing of automobiles with fume-belching internal-combustion engines, and the elimination of certain chemical fertilizers, which will make farming less efficient and less profitable but also less dangerous to the environment. "The important thing," he says, "is for the public to sense the seriousness of the issues. When...
...chemist, said that he was unable to determine the amount of ammonia in the Martian atmosphere, but he estimated the concentration of methane as "no more than a few parts per million." In the earth's atmosphere, the amount is about 1.5 p.p.m.-and added rather jovially that among the terrestrial sources of methane are marsh gas and bovine flatulence, both of which result from the gradual deterioration of vegetable matter...