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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...described as an exemplary war, a war which will prove to the Communists once and for all that so-called 'wars of national liberation' cannot succeed. In fact, we are not proving that. What are we proving except that, even with an army of half a million men and expenditures approaching $30 billion a year, we cannot win a civil war for a regime which is incapable of inspiring the patriotism of its own people...
Suburban Outflow. By whatever name, what is happening in Virginia is enough to unstatus the quo from Accomac to Yorktown. Not only did the assembly approve a record two-year budget of $3.13 billion, up 27.5% from 1966-68; it also gave Godwin authority to borrow $81 million of it. If voters approve in a November referendum, Virginia for the first time this century will float a general obligation-bond issue, a routine fiscal expedient long employed by all but a scattering of states...
Quietly and secretly, technicians at Fort Knox, Ky., loaded an estimated $450 million worth of gold ingots onto a heavily armed convoy. The convoy proceeded to a nearby U.S. Air Force base, where the gold was loaded aboard a transport plane and flown to Britain...
Socks & Mattresses. Telephone and telex lines to London, the world's largest gold market, were swamped as buy ers throughout Europe demanded gold, gold and more gold. More than 200 tons, or $220 million worth, changed hands on the London gold market in one day to establish a new single-day trading record. Where gold could be bought directly, mob scenes erupted and the price soared. Ten times the usual number of buyers jammed the gold pit in the cellar of the Paris Bourse, and fist fights broke out as the price on one day rose...
...begin working a five-day week. They would still work the same 41 hours they had been working, but would compress them into five instead of six days and take two days off. The plan had one obvious advantage: it meant that Russia's work force of 110 million could have an extra day of leisure without stunting production...