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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Just two days before the deadline, President Nixon decided that an IPC appeal pending before Peru's Ministry of Energy and Mines represented "appropriate action" under terms of the Hickenlooper Amendment (TIME, April 11). The President therefore postponed application of the amendment's penalties, which would have meant a $79 million annual loss to Peru in aid and preferential sugar purchases...
Professors are probably not meant to provide absolutes. Unfortunately, they no longer provide even models, unless they happen to be political activists. The civil rights movement, the Kennedys, McCarthy?each of these sufficed for a time, until submerged by death or defeat. But Viet Nam continued, Chicago receded. Nixon won. The remaining target is the nearest at hand: the vexed, vulnerable university...
Strong stuff for a man who has an artificial leg and a heart condition, and who is not exactly in fighting trim at 55. But he meant it, and as a courtesy to the "social Neanderthals," he listed his office phone number, home address and the usual hour (8 p.m.) he could be found "on the darkened Fifth Street sidewalk at the side entrance to the Chronicle." No one showed...
...look like a walking example of cluster zoning. A well-curved curple is absolutely essential, too, for the Yves St. Laurent pants suits that are the cat's pajamas at the moment. Although some of St. Laurent's designs are splendidly elegant, they are certainly not meant to be worn by size 14 women. Yet St. Laurent makes and sells them in size...
...after all my training alone. I'd seen someone a bit ahead and notice myself speeding up until I went by him. It became a game. People along the route, some of them, seemed to be playing their own little game: fool the runners. They were a minority and meant well I think, but gave incorrect information on the distance we have covered. Somewhere out there I was sure I had done 15 miles and asked a cop as I went by him. "This is the 10-mile point," he said. This irritated...