Word: landed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Said one Administration foreign affairs analyst: "In the past, it was an American responsibility to see that wars of national liberation did not succeed; we are saying now that it is principally a local responsibility." Sometimes the U.S. has acted as though defending a far-off land were more important to the U.S. than to that country itself...
More definitive findings are expected in 1971, when the U.S. plans to send two more Mariners into 90-day orbits around the planet, and in 1973, when another two American spacecraft are scheduled to land on Mars itself...
Crowhurst's damaged boat was found in the mid-Atlantic 81 months after he set out from the resort town of Teign-mouth on the southern coast of Eng land. His position, 700 miles southwest of the Azores, indicated that he was front runner for the fastest time. Though Crowhurst, 36, was missing, his logbooks, which gradually lapsed into incoherence, provide a revealing case study of the effects of extended solitude...
...investors missed the market slide. An Atlanta woman sold her stocks in May and put the $23,000 proceeds into underdeveloped land. "I won't have to worry about it every day," she says. Thomas H. Chmielewski, 29, a business planner at General Electric in Manhattan, has minimized his losses by buying in the Japanese stock market as well as on Wall Street. Last spring he put $6,000 into Nomura Securities Co., an investment banking house, and $4,000 into Ikegai Iron Works, a machine-tool company. Ikegai has risen slightly; Nomura declined, but nowhere near as much...
...meant you can't just lock up something and continue to sustain its value. A man can be a genius, but if you set him aside from society, put him in a corner, he'll vegetate. It's the same with natural resources like grazing lands or forests. The Federal Government has an obligation as a great landowner. I think we can find land, in addition to our great scenic or wild areas, which can be utilized to a higher degree, and we can improve on nature by reclamation, irrigation and flood-control projects. With the right...