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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle course. . . But what is the midpoint between Now and Forever? In mathematical terms, it is an absurd conception-dividing infinity in half yields infinity. Richard Nixon might consider Zeno's paradox: In perpetually moving half the distance between one's present position and an ultimate goal, one is condemned to never reach that goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Nixon's Paradox | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...until that cutoff date, since "any incentive for the enemy to negotiate is destroyed if he is told in advance if he just waits for 18 months, we'll be out anyway." Nixon seemed goaded into insisting that he hoped to end the war even faster, although the goal he stated of being out "before the end of 1970 or the middle of 1971" extends past Goodell's deadline. "We're on a course that is going to end this war," he declared. "It will end much sooner if we can have a united front behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Gathering Protest | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...annual increase in industrial production-and so were the demands made on the people. "In those days, the workers never went home," a factory manager told Austrian Journalist Hugo Portisch. "They stayed at their machines twelve, 14, 16 or 20 hours at a time. They had only one goal: to do all they could." Vast armies of blue-tunicked men and women toiled over irrigation projects, dams and thousands of backyard steel furnaces. In less than two years, it was clear that the Great Leap had thrust China backward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: CHINA'S TWO DECADES OF COMMUNISM | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

What kind of sound do Detroit's acousticians attempt to achieve? At G.M., says Product Engineer Jim Leslie, the goal is "ker-chuck-that's what we want, ker-chuck." Chrysler, says Executive Body Engineer Jim Shank, aims for "the kind of sound you get when you drop a ripe pumpkin in the mud.v The ideal sound for American Motors, says Adamson, is "a clump-not a clink, clatter or clunk, but a clump." Of course, he concedes, "we will never reach the ultimate sound." Undeterred, scientists continue to chase across farm fields by dark of night, stethoscopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: The Thunking Man's Car | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

Alvaro Catao scored Adams' only goal on a penalty kick. Ken Tigar and Jackson Bryce assisted him in bolstering the team's attack. Adams' record is now 0-1 for the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams, Kirkland, Leverett Score Touch Football, Soccer Triumphs | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

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