Word: hopefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dramatic retreat from IBP past intransigence, Peking agreed to discuss the border issue with the Soviets. At the same time, the Chinese urged that troops massed along the border be pulled back and that no force be used. They also expressed the hope that relations between the two governments could be normalized, despite the nine-year-old ideological rift that has separated them (see box, following page...
...nuclear nonproliferation pact of 1968. Nor is it any substitute for the long-delayed strategic arms limitation talk (SALT), which Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko last month promised to consider "soon." Still, like the treaties denuclearizing Antarctica and outer space, the seabed proposal at least offers the hope that one more area may be closed to the arms race...
...seven years, and by his cocky show of confidence two weeks ago at Labor's own annual meeting in Brighton. At the Tory conference, one speaker compared Wilson to Richard III, he of the "crooked back" and "evil mind" who rallied his troops and "rode off full of hope to his doom in Bosworth Field." In the end, that fate may befall Edward Richard George Heath, 53, who in five years as the Tories' leader has not yet impressed his own party, much less the British electorate. He is another example of the bland, almost face less leadership...
...Evolution of Man and Society carries this argument to the next logical conclusion. "We have now learned that intelligence is of many kinds," Darlington writes. "It has to be measured not on one scale but on many." It is in such diversity, in fact, that he places the only hope for human survival-a diversity not just among societies but among the men who compose them...
...opening-week guests were Mets Pitcher Tom Seaver and the latest star of Broadway's The Great White Hope, Yaphet Kotto, whose name Namath mispronounced even though he had inked it phonetically on his palm. Most of the interrogation and badinage revolved around Joe's booze-and-broads approach to athletic training. Namath suggested that they drop the subject when he spotted Mrs. Seaver in the audience...