Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blackout. As for President Johnson, he was keeping his own counsel about his plans for Viet Nam. He devoted many hours to the subject last week. He met with the National Security Council. He had a long session with visiting French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, who tried to sell Charles de Gaulle's plan for an immediate international conference aimed at neutralizing all of what used to be French Indo-China...
Those were President Johnson's first, last and only public words on the subject of Viet Nam last week. Indeed, he ordered an Administration-wide news blackout that was broken only by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in an appearance before the House Armed Services Committee to testify on U.S. defenses...
...stock prices, the figure to watch is the supremely important price-earnings ratio-the price of stocks cornpared with their per-share earnings. Stocks in the Dow-Jones index were selling at a precariously high 24-times-earnings just before the 1962 blackout, but the ratio has settled down to a steady and conservative 19.4-to-l in the past year. Average earnings of the Dow-Jones industrials this year are expected to edge above $50 per share. The bulls multiply that by 19.4 and come up with the conclusion that the Dow-Jones by year's end will...
Allen never quite found that place in the "emotional blackout" of Harvard, but Cambridge is a little happier after a week of his Whitmanic tenderness. The University would do well to allow its guests to set more ample, variable standards of behavior, rather than to insist upon the sometimes artificial protocol of "normal society...
...received France's Atomic Science Minister Gaston Palewski. In the midst of their conversation, a messenger burst in. Nikita excused himself, as the minister later recalled, explaining that he had to return to Moscow "for the cosmonauts." Then he disappeared into the dusk of a typically Byzantine-Communist blackout...