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...Lyndon Johnson's 200 million countrymen, the year produced an unprecedented crop of complaints, based largely on the two great crises that came into confluence. Abroad, there was the war in Viet Nam, possibly the most unpopular conflict in the nation's history and the largest ever waged without specific congressional consent. At home, the Negro, more aware than ever of the distance he has yet to travel toward full citizenship, vented his impatience in riots that rent 70 cities in a summer of bloodshed and pillage. The U.S. was vexed as well by violence in the streets, rising costs...
Police called the two pounds of marijuana confiscated directly from Swift "the largest amount ever found in a narcotics investigation in Vermont...
...Vorster apartheid regime. But at least five ministers, led by Foreign Secretary George Brown, declined to go along with Wilson's decision to do just that, claiming that 1) Britain could hardly turn down ?200 million worth of export business from its second largest customer in the face of mounting balance-of-payments deficits, and 2) it is bogus morality to pass up income, even from arms traffic, while at the same time cutting into Labor's backbone social programs...
...Fiftysix, or less than 2% of all the counties studied, HEW pointed out, account for an unusually significant proportion of the nation's infant deaths. Included in the 56 are all but one of the U.S. cities with more than 500,000 population and the country's largest Negro and white ghettos...
...Pont de Nemours & Co., the world's largest chemical firm, last week named the twelfth president in its 165-year history. He succeeds Lammot du Pont Copeland, 62, who moves up to chairman. While he becomes only the second president from outside the Du Pont family, Charles Brelsford ("Brel") McCoy, 58, hardly ranks as an interloper. Son of a onetime Du Pont vice president, McCoy has two sons and a brother working for the com pany, and his sister Anne is married to Du Pont Secretary Henry T. Bush. An other brother is Landscape Painter John McCoy...