Word: national
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first quarter of this new business was logically concerned with organization and getting acquainted (Nixon's visits to Government agencies, his trip to Europe, his televised news conferences). All this Nixon has accomplished with decency if not grace, with competence if not brilliance. In a world and nation grown weary of a looming Uncle Sam and a volcanic Johnson, the new pace is comforting to many...
...reflects the nation that made him-mobile geographically and intellectually, sensitive to the prevailing momentum. To some he is still a man in search of an idea. To others he represents an open-mindedness not hobbled by the intellectual arrogance of those in the previous Administrations who led the U.S. into the Viet Nam war, but is instead flexible enough to seek out the right course and attempt to follow it. The doubt, of course, is whether he can perceive the right. He said last fall he would be a fresh wind in Washington, and he has not been quite...
...will have to start looking for a new marshal. Winders and Portia are contemplating retirement. "The council," says the grandmother, "thinks I'm getting loo old to chase cars." The council may have a point. At 70, Esther Winders claims to be the oldest working policewoman in the nation...
...small country (the size of Mississippi) with a population of 13 million, North Korea is impressively armed and viciously anti-American. Over the past few years, Kim has singled out the U.S. for opprobrium unmatched by any other Communist nation: "Tear the limbs off the U.S. beast," he urged last year. "Behead it all over the world...
...East German question. The Free Democrats, whose 49 Deputies constitute the only opposition in the Bundestag to the Socialists and Christian Democrats, want West Germany to sign a treaty with East Germany that would recognize each state as a separate and sovereign political entity "within the German nation." The Free Democrats have found sympathizers among about one-third of the delegates to last week's Socialist congress in Bad Godesberg. Two important regional delegations even pushed for a resolution similar to the Free Democrats' program. But Brandt and Deputy Chairman Herbert Wehner tempered the Socialist stand somewhat while...