Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foreign policy, which for most of the postwar era has focused on Europe, still has to adjust fully to the encircling revolution in Asia. The U.S. has yet to extend to the Far East the hard and fast guarantees of collective security that made NATO so potent a deterrent. And, as anti-American outbursts in Paris, Pakistan and Indonesia demonstrated last week, it is not always easy to keep allies, let alone to find them. Yet, at a time when Asia's Communists are only too plainly making common cause, it is up to the Johnson Administration to make...
...plebiscite, the argument runs, there would be nothing to prevent Madras or Kerala or any other state from doing the same thing. The warrior Sikhs of Punjab have long dreamed of an independent nation. In fact, a Sikh leader, Sant Fateh Singh, was scheduled last week to begin a fast that would be followed by self-immolation, to force Indian acceptance of Sikh autonomy. In deference to the war emergency, Singh has postponed both his fast and his suicide. Indians compare their situation to that of the U.S., which fought a four-year civil war for the preservation...
...economic guidelines, those rule-of-thumb efforts to tell U.S. workers and businessmen how much they can raise prices and wages without bringing on inflation. The Council of Economic Advisors created the guidelines* three years ago, basing them on the doctrine that U.S. wages should rise only as fast as improving technology allows industry's output per man to grow. The council's conclusion, based on long-term estimates of productivity: prices and wages should not rise more than 3.2% annually. The guidelines have remained as official policy under both Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Last week they...
...basic trouble is that the world has no truly international currency to bankroll its expanding volume of commerce. In order to support most trade and investment, it uses several substitutes: gold and two so-called "reserve" currencies, U.S. dollars and British pounds. But world trade is growing so fast that the reserves cannot keep up with it: since 1959, free world reserves have expanded only from $57 billion to $68 billion, while exports have risen from $101 billion to $156 billion...
...that include Buckingham Palace and their own fun-house apartment, which is carpeted with wall-to-wall grass kept mowed by a gaitered rustic. Meanwhile, the color camera dances in and out of focus, zooms up and away, tilts with the music, splashes light like liquid, and cuts so fast from this to that that the effect is almost subliminal...