Word: chronics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberals like Charles Longstreet Weltner from progressive Altanta and black community leader state Rep. Julian Bond comprise the new party. Old-style moderates like former Gov. Carl Sanders and Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen will soon have to make a decision on which party--the redneck Maddox majority or the chronic minority liberals--they will go with...
There is general agreement that Britain has made an honest stiff-upper-lip effort to right its economy. The fact remains that the country's balance of payments problem is chronic, despite such stringent measures as devaluation of the pound, a bare-bones national budget, tight wage controls and heavy new taxes...
...derives from the fact that he is, literally, an exile without a country. Educated in Rumania by his father, a Greek Orthodox priest, he went to Paris at the age of 26 and studied fitfully at the Sorbonne for 13 years, refusing to acquire an advanced degree. Plagued by chronic insomnia, he developed his profound sense of despair during one long nuit blanche (sleepless night) after another. Unmarried, he earns most of his modest income from part-time work as a translator and manuscript reader. "I don't make a living," he told TIME Correspondent Paul Ress last week...
Despite a relative lull in the fighting, the little breakaway country finds itself in a nearly untenable military situation. Its small army of 25,000 is outmanned four to one by the federals. It has no heavy weapons and suffers from chronic ammunition shortages. One of its best brigades has arms for only 3,000 of the 6,000 men on its roster...
...been around the majors for nine years, winning 20 games in 1965 and 21 in 1966. He was headed for an other 20-victory season last year when a line drive broke his left leg and put him out of action for six weeks. Neither that injury, nor a chronic soreness in his right arm, prevented Gibson from playing the hero's role in last year's World Series against the Boston Red Sox. In an amazing show of strength and stamina, he started three games in nine days and won them all, giving up only three runs...