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Whether these events will loom large in history, or will fade along with all the previous false starts towards peace, may not be known for weeks to come. Not even negotiations on the main issues of the conflict are assured, let alone a successful outcome. On the other hand, said the President, "it could lead to another positive step and another positive step and another positive step that might end this terrible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE WAR: Hopeful Half Steps | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

Some of the President's advisers are urging him to get out and campaign across the country. But others feel that things are bound to pick up for the President after the novelty of the Kennedy-McCarthy challenge begins to fade-or if the fortunes of war should happen to change. As California's Democratic Committeeman Eugene Wyman put it, "The President will wear well with time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Test of Time | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

...today are in the labor force; thus the majority must be supported by the minority who work-and raising their productivity on farms and in factories requires copious quantities of capital. Second, increasing economic competition forces every society to spend more to modernize and automate. Expensive plants age and fade as quickly as cinema sex queens; machines that have been built to last 25 years must be scrapped after ten. Man the dreamer-constantly torn between today's reality and tomorrow's potential-continually destroys capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE WHOLE WORLD IS MONEY-HUNGRY | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

That mythical magic of Bonnie and Clyde just will not fade. Now television is using them in a smartly satirical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Commercials: The Bonnie & Clyde Caper | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...Keith McDonald of the Environmental Science Services Administration and Robert Gunst of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey have calculated that the field's strength has decreased by 15% in the past three centuries. If the decline continues at the present rate, they believe, the magnetic field will fade away completely in 2,023 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geophysics: A New Doomsday? | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

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