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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the Berlin access issue was the key to a diplomatic breakthrough, the way now is open for further progress. The most immediate effect is that the Big Four now can sign the final Berlin protocol, which will incorporate the access and Wall-pass agreements. At Soviet insistence, West Germany is expected to ratify the renunciation-of-force agreements it negotiated in 1970 with Poland and the Soviet Union, so that they will go into effect at the same time the Berlin protocol is signed. The NATO countries, which have made Berlin a test of Soviet intentions, will then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Berlin Breakthrough | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

Saying the Unmentionable. The breakthrough came when the U.S. at last brought itself to offer two indispensable concessions. First, American officials pledged explicitly to drop the 10% import surcharge as part of a money bargain. Then Connally began talking about the previously unmentionable: outright devaluation of the once almighty dollar. For their part, moneymen from Europe and Japan started discussing just how much they would let their currencies rise against the dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: The Forthcoming Devaluation of the Dollar | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

Beyond Freedom and Dignity contains no new findings and expounds no new theories. He recommends no specific changes in society, but only says that we are capable of making them. It is in no way a breakthrough, either as psychology, sociology or political science. Why then, the furor? In Agnew's case, certainly, because the Vice-President needed an easy target. (Agnew went so far as to lump Skinner in the same category with "progressive educators"--a classification which both Skinner and progressive educators will find amusing.) In the case of Time, because the popular press is always in need...

Author: By B.f. Skinner, | Title: Beyond Freedom and Dignity | 12/7/1971 | See Source »

...World War II, he became headwaiter in Munich's Intermezzo, a strip joint that for some reason also served food. In 1955, he invested his savings of $3,000 to acquire a nearby winehouse. Refurbishing and a hearty, inexpensive menu kept the eatery full. Jahn's real breakthrough came after a slightly tipsy customer suggested that he feature the kind of roast chicken sold during Munich's Oktoberfest. To cook the birds, Jahn invented a special rotating spit and sold half a chicken for only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: A Fortune from Fowl Fare | 11/15/1971 | See Source »

Although it is impossible to determine at this time the amount of funding to be made available to Harvard or any other individual university. Hale Champion, vice president for Financial Affairs, termed the bill "a breakthrough...

Author: By Peter Shapiro, | Title: Congress Debates Financing For Wider Grants to Colleges | 11/5/1971 | See Source »

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