Word: janning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same principle of isolation or, as Mr. Lippmann puts it, "the study of our vital interests," [Jan. 8] that history has blamed for the outbreak of World War II. If we had stepped in when Japan took over Manchuria, if we had said something when Hitler marched into the Rhineland, if we had done something when Hitler was allowed to take the Sudetenland, if, if, if-and now, if we let the Communists take Viet Nam, what will history say about us then...
...American officials were "engaged in subversive activities" and would have to leave the country in 24 hours. One was Embassy Counselor Robert Gordon. The other was U.S. Consul in Zanzibar Frank Carlucci, a hustling, Swahili-speaking troubleshooter who had seemed to be getting on well with Nyerere (TIME, Jan...
Replacement of TSR-2 planes with less expensive ($5.6 million each) U.S.-built F-111 tactical fighter-bombers (TIME, Jan. 15) would bring about considerable savings. But it would also put 50,000 of Britain's 265,000 aircraft workers out of jobs and strike a damaging technological blow to the nation's once proud aircraft industry. In an unguarded moment, Healey, who admires tough, cost-conscious U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, dismissed such criticism by saying it was not his job to "wetnurse overgrown and mentally retarded children in the domestic economy...
...Leyton, a drab East London working-class neighborhood represented in the House of Commons for the past 30 years by a 73-year-old Labor M.P. named Reginald Sorensen. Abruptly, Sorensen was invited to accept a life peerage and vacate the constituency, and a by-election was scheduled for Jan...
Last week, hailing "this new form of planning" as "profitable for industry and the population," Moscow announced that it already had approved the conversion to Libermanism of nearly 400 consumer-goods factories from Moscow and Leningrad to Minsk and Kazakhstan. Trade ministries have until Jan. 31 to draw up a list of retail outlets authorized to place orders directly to the factories. Factory managers in turn will be given the authority to set production schedules based on retail-store orders, and to determine the size and wages of the work force needed to fill them at a profit...