Word: great
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rock bottom now in these talks, so it doesn't really make any difference who sits around that table," one frustrated American official commented in Paris. The view from Washington seems similar and that helps explain why President Nixon last week accepted-"with great regret and warmest thanks"-Henry Cabot Lodge's resignation as chief U.S. negotiator at the deadlocked Paris peace talks. Lodge's deputy, Manhattan Attorney Lawrence Walsh, also quit. Both resignations will be effective...
That human dimension is now gone. In the third generation, so critical in the history of great American fortunes, that absence may reduce the Kennedys to a family of nice rich people related to a former President...
...intelligence learned of the mishap through ELINT (for electronic intelligence). Deployed on the ground, aboard reconnaissance aircraft, or inside ferret-type electronic satellites, ELINT's sensors can easily detect large explosions, even at great distances, from the electromagnetic disturbances that they cause in the atmosphere. If added proof of the Soviet troubles is needed, the Russians themselves have indirectly provided it. The chief of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Mstislav Keldysh, last month unexpectedly announced that the Russian effort to land men on the moon had been indefinitely delayed...
Same Words. The American people, he said, "should be made aware of the trend toward the monopolization of the great public-information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands." It was a promising introduction to a subject that needs discussion. But the only news conglomerate he mentioned was the Washington Post Co., which is hardly a giant in a field inhabited by the Newhouse chain (22 newspapers, seven TV stations, seven radio stations, 20 magazines), Scripps-Howard (16 newspapers, four TV stations, three radio stations) and the Knight group (eleven...
...also told the students that both wages and the differential will be negotiated with the union when the contract runs out. He added that, until negotiations with the union two years ago, the differential was even greater. "We consider any differential too great," a demonstrator answered...