Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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West Germans can take scant com fort from the state of their own defenses. The Bundeswehr, which is 52,000 men short of its planned 508,000 force level, showed only two weeks ago, in the Black Lion maneuvers, that it was far too inadequately trained and equipped. Wrote Der Spiegel, the big West German newsmagazine: "The Federal Republic's military situation has never appeared so hopeless as today...
...plans to work abroad for a while, but none will renounce Czechoslovak citizenship. Says Jan Kadar, who co-directed The Shop on Main Street: "We have a solidarity with our government and our people. It was a miracle. Never was a people so united on so high an ethical level...
...Republican Convention in Mi ami Beach, Graham's official duty was to deliver the closing benediction. But Nixon also invited him to sit in with G.O.P. leaders at a top-level conference to discuss a running mate. Asked his preference, Billy at once suggested Oregon's Senator Mark Hatfield, because of his deep religious faith (Hatfield is also a devout Baptist.) At his Pittsburgh Crusade last month, Graham introduced Nixon to the audience and praised him for his "generosity," "tremendous constraint of temper," and even "his integrity in counting the score" in golf...
Wall Street reacted happily. Encouraged by the prospect that falling interest rates could lead to a new burst of corporate expansion, investors bid stock prices up to a new high for the year. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 7.83 points in a day to reach 938.28. At that level, it had climbed 68.63 points from its Aug. 9 summer low; it stood only a shade below its 1967 peak of 943.08. Standard & Poor's 500-stock index inched up 0.35 points to its own 1968 high...
...book, Hersh quotes one former high-level Defense Department official as saying, "There's a revolution in biological sciences, just as there was in the physical sciences in the 1920's. It [genetics] is analagous to quantum theory. A huge area of science is in ferment--and it may have military implications and advantages...