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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris of the 22-nation Organization for European Cooperation and Development, the delegation earned high marks and persuaded even the skeptics that the U.S. economy is in good hands. The Europeans wanted some indication of U.S. determination to handle its No. 1 economic problem: inflation. The Americans did not disappoint them. "If we have one objective, it is to try to cool the overheated economic situation," said Paul McCracken, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. The main priority, observed Paul A. Volcker, the Treasury's new Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs, "is to regain control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: NIXON'S FIGHT AGAINST ECONOMIC PROBLEM NO. 1 | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...will probably review Soc Rel 149 next week. Brown said that although nobody wants to disappoint the students--"who have shown remarkable verve and intellectual involvement in the course"--there is an outside chance that it might not get final approval from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Social Relations Department Gives Tentative Approval to Soc Rel 149 | 12/11/1968 | See Source »

...ticket uses a softer approach to win applause at rallies. "Remember, I believe in our young people," Richard Nixon says. "They're great. Give 'em a chance." But Nixon accepts Agnew's remarks about protests, and the clear warning in his remarks is that any students who disappoint him by disrupting a university deserve to be punished...

Author: By Jack D. Burke, | Title: Students Under Fire | 10/10/1968 | See Source »

While demonstrators battled with police in Chicago last week, the Beatles released a new single recording, Revolution, addressed to radical activists the world over. Their message will surprise some, disappoint others, and perhaps move many: cool it. "We all want to change the world," they sing over an exhilarating blast of hard rock. But not through destruction or "minds that hate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recordings: Apples for the Beatles | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

...advisers were similarly inclined to cheer. The Vice President has promised to issue a major Viet Nam statement in the near future, but Johnson's more-of-the-same policy makes it difficult for him to say anything that does not either repudiate the President or disappoint those who want to see a swift end to the war. For the time being, he contented himself with a thinly veiled rebuke to his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Eugene McCarthy. "Peace talkers are 10?a dozen today," Humphrey said at a dinner-dance at Manhattan's Waldorf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Strong Echoes from Honolulu | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

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