Word: intactness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because John Kennedy flew to Vienna 18 years ago to meet with Nikita Khrushchev, that mission is most in mind as Carter prepares for a similar journey. The U.S. was buoyant then, Kennedy young and cocky. But even with our huge margin of terror still intact, J.F.K. was shaken by Khrushchev's seeming indifference to nuclear confrontation. The personal assessment these men made of each other was important...
...residents: native Yankees, middle-management families from companies such as Raytheon and Polaroid, intellectuals from M.I.T. and Harvard. "You have the impression that everyone in Lexington has a fireplace in his bedroom," says one high school senior. The corollary illusion is that every house contains a happy, intact family. Yet an estimated 30% (no one knows for sure) of the students in Lexington's school system have suffered the effects of divorce. Despite the fact that divorce is now regarded as part of the American way of life, they feel they are aliens in their own culture...
...include a proposal for an equal limit on the number of MlRVed ICBMS that both sides could deploy, plus a drastic reduction in the number of Soviet heavy missiles already deployed. The plan would have rolled back some Soviet programs and slowed down others, while leaving the American arsenal intact, although it would have been coupled with an offer to sacrifice some American weapons still on the drawing board. As Aaron later put it, "We would be giving up future draft choices in exchange for cuts in their starting lineup." Brown seconded the idea, adding that there might also...
...compassion-even a general." Thank God there is a war going on. To break up the moony romantic scenes, Ike offers a colorful tour of the Normandy invasion, the Battle of the Bulge and the debacle of the Kasserine Pass. Evocative old newsreels, with their Lowell Thomas narration blessedly intact, fill in the skirmishes that are not covered by Ike's budget...
...decontrol profits while passing a windfall profits tax that would over the next decade save consumers billions of dollars by recovering some of the excess profits. He has, for the most part, missed that opportunity. We now can only hope that most of his proposed tax plan will remain intact as it winds its way through Congress...