Word: nations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report in THE NATION on the schedule for the Apollo 12 astronauts, whose five hours on the moon will "allow time to talk with the Vice President, the Chief Justice and the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
...Thieu and Ky are likely to reach the conclusion that if they cannot live forever with Americans present to protect them, then they cannot operate without the Communists. When that point is reached, it may well be that something like an electoral or control commission, supervised by some outside nation like Japan, might become a far more interesting proposition for both sides...
...Senate is a cave of winds redecorated as a 19th century gentlemen's club. No matter what wrenching changes the nation has undergone, the Senate retains its lacquered snuffboxes. Among the more insistent traditions has been the conservative leadership of the Republican Party. In the past 20 years, the post has been held by such stalwarts of the right as Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry, Ohio's Robert A. Taft and California's William F. Knowland...
Italy's bargaining climate is certainly not helped by the succession of three weak caretaker governments that have held power since May 1968. But far deeper causes underlie much of the labor unrest. Italian workers are caught between the higher cost of living brought on by the nation's celebrated II Boom and a notoriously unresponsive national leadership. Italy's public services, from education to rapid transit, are among the poorest in Western Europe...
...problems that are as immense as the vast land and as numerous as its people. This was to have been a "year of triumph" for Mao and China-with a victorious end to his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and a restoration of law and order throughout a badly fragmented nation. But the balance sheet is dismal for 1969-as it is for many of the years since...