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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than 50 reporters, staffers and Secret Service men and an argosy of silver bowls, spoons and forks to bestow on his hosts, Humphrey deplaned first at Geneva. From Kennedy Round negotiators he heard glum reports that the talks had reached an impasse over Washington's reluctance to lower tariffs on imported chemicals and European resistance to lowering duties on American farm products. Humphrey warned that if agreement was not reached by the deadline at month's end, the U.S. Congress-now in an increasingly protectionist mood-was not likely to renew the 1962 Trade Act that authorized...
...paced over the next six months. The local balloting will run through the summer, then national elections for President and an upper house of representatives will be held on Sept. 1. On Oct. 1, the return to civilian rule will be completed with elections for representatives to a lower house. For a nation at war, the polling process itself is a daring, even dangerous, vote of confidence in the future...
...light through cooler matter on the way to the observer), the spectrum of 0237-23 displays three red shifts. In addition to the expected shift of its emission lines, Astronomers Greenstein and Maarten Schmidt (TIME cover, March 11, 1966) have found its absorption lines have two distinctly different and lower red shifts. Astronomer Greenstein believes that they are caused by light from the central body passing through two shells of gas rapidly expanding away from the quasar; the light is thus absorbed by matter that is receding from the earth at velocities slightly different from that of the central body...
...contraception, 24% are on the pills. Broken down, it shows 27% pill use among Protestants, 22% among Jews, 18% among Roman Catholics. This last figure may be low because some Catholics say they use the pills for reasons other than contraception. The use rate among Negroes is only slightly lower than among whites...
Female hormones will also suppress a man's sperm production-the present pills do this-but they lower both libido and potency, along with more dangerous side effects. Vaccinating a woman against her husband's sperm, or vaccinating him against his own, has been investigated by Dr. Tyler's biologist brother Albert, with poor results...