Word: metting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dirt road, the darkness, the narrow bridge where the car fell, it was an accident, a true accident." Actually, under Massachusetts law, a charge of manslaughter, which requires "willful or wanton" conduct, would have been very unlikely. Even assuming the worst, Kennedy's actions would probably not have met that extreme criterion...
Boggs, now majority whip, would like to become Speaker eventually. He realizes that the surtax is necessary and that some degree of reform is probably unavoidable. Recently, reports TIME Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil, Boggs met secretly in New York City with a number of oil and sulphur executives. He advised them that some reduction in the depletion allowance was necessary in order to prevent even more drastic changes in other tax regulations bearing on their industries...
...long after Eagle's successful touchdown, the Soviet space vehicle Luna 15 met with a less fortunate fate. The unmanned ship dropped from her lunar orbit and headed for the moon's surface. Telemetered data picked up by Western observatories indicated that Luna had hit too hard to survive. To most space experts, the failure was one more proof that the Russians are months if not years behind the U.S. in space technology...
...warned that "we are now engaged in a long battle to drain the enemy's strength." In an attempt to create more Arab cooperation against Israel, he called for a new Arab summit conference, noting that "conditions now are very different from what they were when we last met in Khartoum in August 1967." Nasser paid specific tribute to one of those-"changed conditions": he hailed the Palestinian resistance movement as "an almost unbelievable phenomenon" and pledged that "we will continue to give all we can to the commandos...
Erie's littoral U.S. cities. Washington has asked industry to spend another $285 million on waste-treatment equipment. But schedules are being met by only 15 of the 102 target cities and 32 of the 100 major industrial polluters. The trouble is that pollution rarely gets a high priority until profits are affected or people are killed...