Word: mans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...found the man," Richard Nixon told his personal staff in 1967. "I've found the heavyweight!" The President was not, of course, speaking of sport but of politics, and his eye was not on the scales. Two years later, John Mitchell, the Attorney General, is still the heavyweight in Nixon's hierarchy, although to many outsiders he seems more like the heavy. Dour, taciturn, formidably efficient, Mitchell comes across to liberals and civil libertarians as a hard-lining prosecutor with all the human graces of the Sheriff of Nottingham...
...Station to Philippine control and to return unused portions of the big Clark Air Force Base. Marcos may tell Nixon that he, too, is under pressure to bring home his troops from Viet Nam; he may even discuss plans to withdraw at least part of the 2,000-man Philippine contingent. The Filipinos are still eager for U.S. aid and investment. But as Nixon will point out, the Philippine government is hurting its chances of attracting outside capital by continuing to tighten regulations on foreign-owned business...
...Asian Revolution has no doubt got bogged down. None of these countries in Southeast Asia has completely established a new identity. The question now is how to fulfill expectations of people whom you have mobilized on the basis that, once the white man was gone, they would occupy all the big houses and the big desks. That requires getting your economy going...
...Salvador's ground troops attacked the provincial capital of Nueva Ocotepeque, in Honduras' southwest corner. A brigade commanded by Colonel Mario ("El Diablo") Velázquez Jandres, a hefty green-eyed man who sports modish sideburns, pressed poorly led Honduran units into a narrow defile, then battered them and the town with 75-mm. artillery and mortar fire...
Rising Waters. As it has for centuries, Venice last week enticed and entranced a horde of tourists, part of the city's 3,000,000 annual visitors. Few of them were aware that "man's most beautiful artifact," as Art Historian Bernard Berenson called Venice, is sinking beneath their feet...