Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crimson coach Bob Harrison kept the team practicing throughout the exam period, something of an innovation for Harvard basketball. He reports the team fit and eager, ready to meet the crucial weekend...
...Office Success. It was one of the ironies of the transition period that while the lower levels of government awaited new superiors and unknown policy guidelines, Nixon was nonetheless making himself felt at the top. On Viet Nam, particularly, he acted almost as a coPresident, assisting the Johnson Administration in bringing Saigon into the expanded Paris peace talks (see THE WORLD). He scrupulously observed his pledge to act in concert with Lyndon Johnson on foreign affairs from November through January...
During much of the period between election and Inauguration, Richard Nixon purposely remained in the wings, saying little, digesting masses of reports from 21 study groups on problems ranging from the guaranteed annual wage to the post-Viet Nam economy. Now center stage is unavoidable. Nixon's first official address was an evocation of the striving and optimism that are basic to the American temperament: "We have endured a long night of the American spirit. But as our eyes catch the dimness of the first rays of dawn, let us not curse the remaining dark. Let us gather the light...
...Deep. The U.S., said Johnson, continues to enjoy an unequalled economic boom. "Our prosperity is broad and deep," he said. "It's brought record profits, the highest in our history, record wages. Our gross national product has grown more in the last five years than in any other period in our nation's history." The G.N.P. was $589,200,000,000 when Johnson took office; for calendar 1968 it is $861 billion. Unexpectedly, he also announced that the U.S. has achieved an international balance of payments surplus for the first time since 1957, which should add new strength...
...their demands are unreasonable. They have also forced the universities to rethink their obligations to Negro students. Yale now offers for the first time a major in Afro-American Studies. The University of Illinois has agreed to admit 2,000 blacks over a four-year period. Last week a faculty committee at Harvard agreed to establish an Afro-American Studies center, subject to a faculty vote, and Berkeley's executive committee of the College of Letters and Science approved creation of a black studies department...