Word: nine
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...kind in the hemisphere since 1967. Whether this televised inter-American consensus will prove effective is another matter. White House mail is running 8 to 1 against the treaty. Administration head counters claim that 58 Senators are already willing to vote in favor of the pact; only nine more would give Carter the two-thirds approval he needs, but they may prove hard to get. Opponents, meanwhile, talk of stalling the treaty with parliamentary motions or hobbling it with reservations...
Most of the eight or nine New Philosophers, who range in age from 28 to 40, were marked by the student riots of May 1968, which collapsed under pressure of a cynical collaboration between the Communists and De Gaulle's government. Since 1975, they have churned out 14 books, two of which are now on French bestseller lists. Although they insist that there are important differences in their views and bridle at being lumped together, they nonetheless share a common argument: Marxism is not only dead but dangerous in an era in which all the sweeping philosophical systems...
...that most of the rest of the world has long known? Look no further than the foot of Brazilian Pelé, who will retire this season after two decades as the world's premier player (and the world's highest-paid athlete). Although the N.A.S.L. was founded nine years ago, soccer as an American spectator sport was really born in 1975 when the Cosmos persuaded Pelé to come out of retirement with a $4.75 million, three-year contract to evangelize Americans for soccer. His arrival brought instant respectability to American soccer and helped lure...
...looks at himself and his contemporaries and sees failure. "We had all our values wrong," he tells his current actress girl friend. "We expected too much. Trusted too much. There's a great chasm in twentieth-century history. A frontier. Whether you were born before nineteen thirty-nine or not. The world, time...it slipped. Jumped forward three decades in one. We antediluvians have been left permanently out of gear...
Henry Wise '18, attorney for the 46-member policemen's union, said yesterday that any further movement in the nine-month-old talks depends on the administration's reaction to union suggestions regarding a proposed set of departmental regulations...