Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lifted off the runway at Pleiku in South Viet Nam's Central Highlands last week, the Air Force C-130 Hercules transport acted almost like a frisky jet fighter. With Air Force Major General Burl McLaughlin pushing it along at full power, the craft climbed rapidly to 12,500 ft. before leveling off for the hour-long return flight to Saigon. McLaughlin's desire to gain altitude quickly, a routine precaution among pilots in Viet Nam, was heightened in this case both by the Viet Cong's post-Tef offensive and by the unusual payload that...
...there are many more examples. In addition, subtle changes are taking place in our atmosphere and oceans-with far-reaching but little-understood effects; e.g., on the Earth's climate. Solutions to these questions demand the best efforts of scientists from every discipline. In fact, one of the major benefits of planetary exploration will be a better understanding of the workings of the Earth...
Claims and Control. Most of the tour members, traveling as concerned citizens at their own expense, are principal officers of major business organizations. Together they employ 2,400,000 people and had combined sales in 1968 of more than $55 billion. They went to the Far East as observers eager to sound out Asia's leaders. Led by the publisher, TIME'S delegation included Board Chairman Andrew Heiskell, President James A. Linen, Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan and Managing Editor Henry Grunwald. The tour program was organized by the Time-Life News Service, with Chief of Correspondents Richard...
There was only one major gaffe in an otherwise flawlessly executed tour. The White House released the text of an effusive arrival statement of praise for Charles de Gaulle, which was bannered in advance by the French press. In the event, however, Nixon delivered only a watered-down edition of the speech. The overblown first version seemed to negate Nixon's carefully cultivated neutrality in intra-European affairs; by awkwardly retracting it, he ran the opposite risk of offending De Gaulle and the French. He saved the situation somewhat by praising De Gaulle warmly in a subsequent toast...
...received from private business after last Nov. 5 would have meant putting himself out to pasture. The green was all but irresistible; some of the proffered posts would have made him instantly wealthy. They included the presidencies of an international-development firm, two Wall Street brokerage houses and a major mutual fund. But all of them would have precluded further political activity. The most remarkable offer, however, came from the American who probably senses more keenly than any other a defeated candidate's need to work for the future as well as the present. Richard M. Nixon, after...