Word: junes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book value of the University's general investments was $869.8 million on June 30, 1969-$43.0 million more than at the end of fiscal 1968. Harvard received $29.5 million in gifts to the capital fund last year, with the other $13.5 million of the increase coming from the increased value of its investments...
...presidential statement that the U.S. will discuss at the Paris talks a timetable for "prompt and systematic withdrawal." Nixon in the past has accepted the idea of a cease-fire in Viet Nam only if it is supervised by an international body agreed to by both sides. In June, he said that without such surveillance, and "in the case of a guerrilla war, a cease-fire is a grave disadvantage to those forces that are in place." A fixed deadline for withdrawal, he believes, would end any incentive Hanoi now has to negotiate a settlement; he would agree...
...Trung streets, G.I.s and South Vietnamese troops swap insults and punches-often over the favors of bar girls. In one such honky-tonk brawl earlier this month, a major in the Vietnamese Rangers chopped off the hand of a U.S. military policeman with a machete. In June, two American military police who had rushed to a bar in response to complaints that a drunken G.I. was making trouble were shot to death by Lieut. Colonel Nguyen Viet Can, commander of the Vietnamese airborne battalion that guards President Thieu's Independence Palace. No charges were filed against the colonel...
...estimated 44 other foreigners (ten Americans) remain under detention in China, including at least one journalist, Keiji Samejima, 37, an able correspondent for Tokyo's Nihon Keizai, who was arrested in June...
Sveda, accidentally discovered cyclamate sodium (TIME, June 5, 1950), it looked as if the ideal sweetener for people who do not want to get fat had been found: it is 30 times as sweet as sugar, leaves little aftertaste and survives the heat of cooking. In the years since, cyclamates have become the basis of a $1 billion-a-year business...