Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more fatigued by the demands of his public image. As LIFE reports this week, Kennedy would be in a room and feel people pressing in on him. His aides would hear him mumble "T.M.B.S."?Too Many Blue Suits ?and they would know that it was time to clear the room...
...billion, primarily in non-Vietnamese military programs, in order to keep the budget under the $192.9 ceiling set by Congress. Viewing the surtax as his key weapon against the inflation that in June boosted the consumer price index by six-tenths of 1%, he has made it clear that he is willing to pay a price for its extension. Nixon last year indicated opposition to changing the oil-depletion allowance, but he will probably sign any tax-reform bill passed by Congress...
...peacemakers, including the U.N. and the Big Four (the United States, the U.S.S.R., Britain and France), produced little progress. Neither Israel nor Egypt, the major antagonists, displayed any interest in compromise. On the contrary, both were intent on expanding the scale of their attacks. The pattern was clear: strike and counterstrike, with each major blow more vicious than the last...
While White was dashing among the candidates-a day here with Nixon, a day there covering Romney (remember Romney?), with Rockefeller, with Robert Kennedy, even Johnson-the events that ultimately shaped the election were taking place elsewhere. In Viet Nam, the Tet offensive was finally shattering hopes for a clear-cut American military victory. On campuses across the country, a young political amateur named Allard Lowenstein was meticulously organizing a network of students to a force that would decisively help unseat the President and carve a niche in history for Eugene McCarthy. In cities a continent apart, two maimed minds...
Alas, the marvels of science so relished by Wells have produced far less than Utopia. Lovat Dickson, formerly an editor and director of Macmillan and Co., Wells' London publisher, cannot quite forgive the man who blithely sold the masses on the future. But he makes clear that Wells was the first gulled victim of his own salesmanship, and that with his extraordinary capacity for hope went an extraordinary capacity for disenchantment. Inside the complacent optimist, a desperate pessimist was signaling wildly...