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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...antigambling laws -and regular police crackdowns on Pnompenh's 40-odd illegal houses of chance-had no effect. Cambodians and the equally avid Chinese and Vietnamese residents in the capital continued to gamble their riels away. Profits to the illicit houses were put at about $20 million a year...
...American investment capital, both private and governmental, the end of discriminatory tariffs and of quotas for their exports. They expressed concern over the moribund Alliance for Progress, since 1961 the principal vehicle for U.S. aid to Latin America. Congress cut Alianza funds that Lyndon Johnson had requested from $625 million to a disappointing $336.5 million, and Nixon has publicly criticized the program's performance. At each stop, Latin leaders recited the litany of the region's social problems from illiteracy and overpopulation to the need for agrarian reform...
Right on target, more than four months after leaving the earth, two Russian spacecraft last week plunged into the murky atmosphere of Venus. Both Venus 5 and Venus 6 had apparently stood up well under the rigors of their 217-million-mile trips. Each spacecraft successfully ejected an instrumented capsule that radioed back information while parachuting toward the Venusian surface. At week's end, however, both capsules appeared to have fallen victim to intense Venusian heat before making their landings on the planet's surface...
...next decade, the typical American household will earn almost $14,000 - in terms of today's prices - and enjoy a 40% increase in the real standard of living. At the same time, the number of families with incomes above $10,000 will rise from 15 million to 34 million. Those with less than $5,000 will decrease from 13 million to less than 11 million out of a total...
...airlines generally support the students and the cut-rate fares, in the belief that they encourage flying by people who would otherwise take a train or bus, or not travel at all. Last year, more than 5,000,000 young passengers used the fares at a savings of $112 million to them. Even so, the industry has earned a $21 million profit on youth fares during the past two years...