Word: everly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ever since the middle of 1964 I have urged that we should cut our losses by extricating ourselves from the Viet Nam conflict under carefully planned conditions that would result in minimum damage to our interests and authority around the world. If that is what the Nixon Administration is at long last seeking to achieve, the effort has my sympathy...
...milk world opinion before attending the Cairo meeting. He first flew to Damascus, where he persuaded his compliant Syrian hosts to suspend their rule barring Lebanese and Western newsmen from the country. As a result, Arafat had a sizable EastWest audience for the first formal press conference he has ever held. Oozing confidence, the guerrilla leader strode into the Damascus University law-school auditorium wearing a five-day growth of beard but without the tinted wraparound sunglasses that have become something of a trademark...
Franco had two contending groups from which to choose. One was the Falange, the blue-shirted quasi-fascist organization that helped catapult him to power during the Civil War and has been a major source of his political strength ever since. The second is a shadowy group of technocrats who belong to or sympathize with a Roman Catholic organization of laymen and priests known as the Sacerdotal Society of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei. It was Opus Dei last week that gained the Franco patrimony. At least ten of the 19 members of the new Cabinet are associated with...
...might not exist outside his equations, but an Australian researcher recently reported finding them among the debris of atmospheric atoms broken up by cosmic rays (TIME, Sept. 12). Even if quarks are only a mathematical fiction, however, there is no doubt that their creator has brought man closer than ever to a fundamental understanding of matter...
...question of whether violence ever does any good. Occasionally it does do so, but almost always at the cost of other and equally important goods...