Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that "many Americans find Asia remote and marginal to their interests." As for what the nation's position should be, "The ability to develop and defend policies attuned to limited objectives-including a policy of limited war-has become the vital test of the U.S. today. Our opponents count upon our impatience, our impetuousness, our immaturity. They must be proven wrong...
...were unable to recover any of the victims pinned in the submerged scrap heap. It will take weeks of work to cut them all free. Some cars were doubtless swept downstream, and police estimated that it would be a long time-if ever-until a full count could be made of the victims. Mean while, Ohio Governor James Rhodes and his West Virginia counterpart, Hulett Carlson Smith, were pressing for an investigation to determine why the Silver Bridge failed...
...Rest and Recuperation program. Technically, R & R is just five days off which doesn't count against the annual 30-day leave. But its special feature is that for those five days, the U.S. Government will fly the service man absolutely free to his choice among ten of the most fascinating cities on earth, and then after his five glorious days of freedom, fly him back...
That view has its encouraging side in this time of lagging sales of durable goods, most notably in the strike-afflicted auto industry. Though Detroit is still feeling strike effects-auto sales in the first ten days of December were running 12% behind last year-the industry continues to count on a sharp rise on 1968 sales charts. One automaker, Henry Ford II, last week predicted that next year's car and truck sales will be up by 900,000, matching 1965's record sales of 9,300,000. Even if a demand-dampening tax increase is enacted...
...first time. Until now each member nation has been billed monthly for gold that has been sold to meet speculative market demand. The new scheme might involve a "bankbook" arrangement under which members would deposit large amounts of gold with the pool-while continuing to count such gold in their own reserves...