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...statistics are improving. The average American life span reached a record-high 71.9 years in 1974, up from 71.3 in 1973. According to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., the expected lifetime rose to 68.1 years for men and to 75.8 for women - the largest annual increases in two decades...
...open invitation to war." Unless the deadlock ends, Ford indicated, the U.S. may be forced to agree to a Geneva conference, which it does not really want under such conditions, and might make its own suggestions there for a solution. Complained Ma'ariv, Israel's largest newspaper: "The Americans are pressing Israel against the wall...
...Washington puts it thus: "The removal of the relatively benign American presence from the southern flank of China has caused Peking a lot of worry. Hanoi's relations with China are uneasy. Soviet access to Southeast Asia-possibly a naval base at Cam Ranh Bay [site of the largest U.S. military installation during the Viet Nam War]-would change the whole strategic balance of power in Asia...
...rosy Roman sky last week, 359 prostrate men in cream and gold vestments formed a vast rectangle in St. Peter's Square, participants in the largest group ordination in Vatican history. It was held on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, presided over by the man who a dozen years ago this day had ascended Peter's chair and assumed Paul's name. The litany over, the new priests-Africans, Asians, Oceanians, Europeans and Americans-rose two by two and approached the throne for the personal blessing of Pope Paul...
...those days it was common for Harvard students to go down to the Medical School area, not to study but to organize. The tenants of Harvard on of the largest landowners in the area--were forming a bargaining unit. This unit, the Roxbury tenants of Harvard, was created to negotiate with less provide low income housing in which to relocate tenants displaced by hospital expansion...