Word: nationalizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Alan Paton, 66, South African author and outspoken critic of his nation's apartheid policies (Cry the Beloved Country); and Anne Hopkins, 41, his British-born secretary; both for the second time; in Durban...
Died. Allen Dulles, 75, former director of the CIA (seeTHE NATION...
...first presidential press con ference last week, Richard Nixon placed the nation's economic problems on his list of matters that "require urgent attention." Promising "some fine tuning of our fiscal and monetary affairs to control inflation," the President expressed considerable concern over the rate at which prices are rising. "We believe it is possible to control inflation without in creasing unemployment in any substantial way," said Nixon. But he warned...
...year compared with $7.8 billion as recently as 1964, is an other painful result of inflation. Although the total volume of U.S. exports actually rose, climbing domestic price levels attracted a torrent of imports. If some $2.5 billion of U.S. exports paid for by Government aid are excluded, the nation actually suffered a trade deficit last year...
...mine operators. The miners, some of whom wore black arm bands inscribed with skull and crossbones, were demonstrating for protection against "black lung," a disease caused by inhaling coal dust that can lead to illness or death. A form of pneumoconiosis estimated to affect three-fourths of the nation's 135,000 coal workers, black lung has become an increasingly serious problem because modern power-operated mining machines churn up far more dust than old-fashioned picks and shovels. Says one United Mineworkers official: "It used to take a lifetime to get black lung. Now it takes only...