Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon let drop several clues that he has such steps in mind. In the television speech, he said that things were looking better in Viet Nam than they had in June. That was when he declared that he hoped to beat a timetable proposed by ex-Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, who called for withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops by the end of next year. Privately, Nixon told a group of Republican Congressmen last week that nearly all U.S. troops will probably be out of combat before the November 1970 elections. Whether or not he can bring about that result...
...that the people who bet on inflation in past years have been rewarded, while those who pursued prudence have been punished. The businessman who raised his prices in recent years lost few if any customers but increased his profits; the businessman who did not raise prices saw his earnings drop. The consumer who borrowed for a spending spree is paying off his debt in cheapened dollars; the consumer who saved instead is holding dollars that have depreciated. Today most economists believe that inflationary expectations can be conquered by a mild downturn in business. At a time of no growth, they...
...example, that the earth's last ice age began some 70,000 years ago and did not end until about 10,000 years ago. The investigators also made some long-range forecasts. Projecting the established weather pattern, they predicted that temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere will continue to drop for 25 years before a warming trend sets...
Eastern television watchers may got a chance to see MacBean against Lartmouth. ABC has been planning to televise the Harvard-Yale game, but it will probably drop that game for the Prince-ton-Dartmouth contest. A Tiger win over Yale Saturday will make that switch a certainty...
Throughout the evening demonstrators talked to the guards about their political views, urged them to drop their guns and "join us," and offered them food. SDS loud speakers announced that three of the guards had defected and had then been recaptured by the military. Although it is hard to verify the defections, a number of the demonstrators say they saw at least one of the defectors. Right after the first announcement that an MP had "dropped his rifle, taken off his belt and helmet, and walked into the crowd," a soldier missing his rifle, belt, and helmet was marched (under...