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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gross national product, "exceptional by any standard." But British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart recently told the House of Commons that Rhodesia's export earnings had dropped by 40%. "Alone among all the countries of the world." he said, "its total national product is less than it was four years...
Clearly Unessential. The vague wording and relatively leisurely pace of Finch's plan failed to satisfy some scientists who have been actively campaigning against DDT. "If you can ban cyclamates in four or five days, then you can act just as quickly against DDT," says Biologist Charles F. Wurster Jr. of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. "Besides, we are already down to 'essential' uses-and they are clearly unessential for human and environmental health standards...
...than the sound made by large jet engines now in operation; in effect, it will cut in half the noise audible to those on the ground. Under the new limits, the jet noise should be no louder than that heard by a man running a power mower with a four-cycle engine, the FAA promised, and only a quarter to a half as loud as a "typical rock-'n'-roll band...
Steered principally by four conservative cardinals,* the bishops decided to stand pat on most issues, but advanced on some. On celibacy-the noisiest controversy-they once again issued a thumping statement in support of the old discipline, though the 145-to-68 vote for issuing yet another such document was not so lopsided as it had been in the past. The week's most promising advances were the adoption of an elaborate proposal to ensure due process in church administrative procedures, and the establishment of a national office for black Catholicism...
Management in four years. By 1965, some of the challenge had gone out of the job, and he accepted an offer to become executive vice president of the Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores. Before he had even settled into the new job, M.I.T. tapped him to be the Institute's twelfth president. Putting aside thoughts of stock options, executive bonuses and a six-figure salary, Johnson sold the Cincinnati house he had never lived in and resumed his ac| ademic career...