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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...India's Indira Gandhi was pleased with the beginning of U.S. troop withdrawals from Viet Nam, but -probably mindful of the running Indian disputes with Pakistan-was doubtful that collective security would be successful for the nations of the Asian periphery. Pakistan's Yahya Khan wanted to buy new arms from the U.S., but Nixon could only tell him that the matter was under review in Washington. The government-lining Pakistan Times rejected collective security as a trap that might embroil the country in big-power conflicts, and announced that the "special" U.S.-Pakistan relationship of the 1950s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: NIXON'S SOBERING MESSAGE TO ASIA | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

Karen Sue Beineman, 18, a freshman at Eastern Michigan University, was a cautious and sensible girl. On July 23, in Ypsilanti, Mich., she told clerks in a wig shop that she had done only two foolish things in her life. One was to buy herself a wig. The other: to accept a ride from a stranger, who was wait ing outside for her on his motorcycle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: The Rainy Day Murders | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

Thoughtful gardeners should choose the least toxic control available; if it is a poison, they should buy the smallest quantity necessary. Above all, says Cry California, swear off DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons. The ecosystem you save will be your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pesticides: Gardening Without DDT | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...keep a cow," Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "that cow milks me." Linder argues that the same holds true of the commodity time, and that as one result, people become slaves of the possessions and services that compete to fill their leisure hours. "One may possibly buy more of everything," he writes, "but one cannot conceivably do more of everything." To belong to a golf club as well as a sailing club is to spend half one's time going from one to the other, the other half observing all the social amenities that they entail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: Too Much Is Too Little | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...consumers and investors. The rationale is that considerable uncertainty about the future course of the economy is necessary to erase the nation's deep-seated inflationary psychology. As long as people persist in believing that economic growth is perpetual and price rises are inevitable, they will continue to buy and borrow in order to beat still further increases. Once people begin to doubt that "good times" will last forever, the theory goes, then everyone will become more cautious in his buying decisions, demand will slow down-and prices will taper off. This effort to conquer euphoria has at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: WALL STREET'S SEASON OF SUSPENSE | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

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