Word: lessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wiggle Watching. Hanoi was not sure that Lodge would be any more pliable than Averell Harriman-or any less. Reacting with scorn, North Viet Nam's army newspaper Quan Doi Nhan Dan broke out in doggerel: "Which of the two has the more weathered skin,/ The man going out or the man coming in?" To Quan Doi, Lodge is "doomed to follow in the footsteps/Of Nixon the elephant/And feed on his leavings...
Hickel's nomination has incensed the nation's conservationists, who instinctively distrust an Interior Secretary with a less than total commitment to preserve what is left of nature in the U.S. Though Hickel is a successful businessman and for the past two years has been a hard-driving and popular Governor of Alaska, he is regarded among conservationists as the archetype of a state that is impatient to tap its latent wealth. There is so much of Alaska for so few Alaskans that they have never seemed to care very much whether some of the state...
Unexpected Support. "Nader's Neophytes" (TIME, Sept. 13), who were given access to the FTC's personnel and records, found the commission riddled with politics and patronage. Employees tend to be unduly compliant with the wishes of individual Congressmen, who are sometimes much less interested in protecting the consumers than in defending the companies back home. The report blamed the agency's shortcomings on its effusive, arm-waving chairman, Paul Rand Dixon, 55, a onetime aide to the late Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. It called for the chairman to "resign from the agency that...
...caused fresh alarm on the part of air safety experts about the adequacy of instrument-landing equipment at U.S. airports. Bad weather-or weather that required instrument landings-was a factor in at least four of the six approach crashes, and safety experts point out that less than a third of the nation's 623 commercial airports have full instrument-landing systems...
...Sirhan trial postponed until he cleared up his own case, but was overruled by Judge Walker. Cooper is expected to stay on as Sirhan's chief counsel, relegating his personal crisis to off-hours. Even so, it seemed unlikely that the trial could be concluded in less than two months...