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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TUCKER'S COUNTRYSID:, by George Selden, illustrated by Garth Williams (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $3.95). In a sequel to The Cricket in Times Square, a citified cat and mouse visit a cricket and help him contend with dogs, bulldozers and other scourges of the countryside. The black and white illustrations are Garth Williams at his best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jun. 20, 1969 | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...Saigon, the announced reduction panicked some businessmen and depressed real estate prices. The government raised taxes?the price of beer, for example, will go up 55%?to finance anticipated increases in the cost of the war. But some influential Vietnamese feel that Nixon's action will help Thieu. "It shows that the U.S. commitment here is not unlimited," says Tran Ngoc Chau, secretary of the lower house of the National Assembly, and therefore it should encourage greater political unity in South Viet Nam. While Thieu faces new opposition from a neutralist group of intellectuals formed two weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE PROSPECTS FOR DISENGAGEMENT | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...modest house of the U.S. base commander at Midway, Nixon moved quickly to the troop question. "We have claimed for years that we were getting stronger," Thieu replied. "If it is so, we have to be willing to see some Americans leave." Thieu agreed that the announcement might help the Paris negotiations. Said Nixon: "We do not want to break the umbilical cord to your people." The troop replacement would not, said Thieu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: How the Troop Decision Was Made | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...Help from the North. The whole debate has been intensified by the discovery of a huge pool of oil under the snows of Alaska's North Slope. The biggest new find in the U.S. since the East Texas strike of 1930, the North Slope promises to lessen U.S. dependence on oil from the Middle East. Walter Levy, internationally known oil consultant, estimates the find could run as high as 20 billion barrels, enough to increase U.S. reserves by two-thirds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil: Battle Over Special Privilege | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

...Dodge Dart, priced at $3,400 in Spain, proved much too expensive and ostentatious even for government leaders. Last year, sales of Darts slipped to only 1,598, and Simcas to 31,106, out of a total Spanish car production of more than 300,000. To help the company get back on its feet, Chrysler planned another $30 million stock offering, which would have further reduced Barreiros' share of ownership. That, most likely, was what prompted Barreiros and his brothers to resign, though they still retain about 22% of the stock. Without them, Chrysler may find the going harder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: Conflict of Cultures | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

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