Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHEN THE WAR IS OVER, by Stephen Becker. An excellent period morality tale about a Union Army officer who attempts to save the life of a teen-age Rebel who shot him during a Civil War skirmish...
...world's military spending-$173.4 billion for 1968-now exceeds the total amount of all goods and services it produced in 1900. So reports the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The rate is accelerating. During the 1949-68 period, world military spending rose an average 5.9% a year, but for the past three years it has shot up by 8.9%. The U.S. outlay has jumped from an average annual rise of 7.7% to 12%. Last year the U.S. spent $79.6 billion for military purposes, followed by the Soviet Union with $39.8 billion. Together the two countries account for some...
...agreement winds up the last unfinished business that dates back to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In a speech to the National Press Club, Premier Sato, who speaks in fluent but accented English, hailed the Okinawa accord as bringing the postwar period to a close. He promised that Japan, as an equal partner of the U.S., "will make its contribution to the peace and prosperity of the Asian-Pacific region, and hence to the entire world." Sato could afford to be expansive. By having satisfactorily settled the Okinawa issue, he had greatly enhanced his own political standing at home...
Arms for Athens. Such hopes are likely to be disappointed soon. After a long period of deliberation, President Nixon has appointed a new Ambassador to Greece, Career Diplomat Henry J. Tasca, who is awaiting Senate confirmation. More important, the Administration has decided in principle to resume the full arms aid to Greece that was suspended in 1967 to show U.S. displeasure at the military takeover...
During this period she was cranking out most of her sparsely budgeted, highly profitable, eminently disposable movies. Bedazzled, a whimsical parable of the Seven Deadly Sins at work in British society, was the exception. In a brief appearance as Lust, Raquel buffeted the distressed, innocent hero, Dudley Moore, with forethrust bosom and broad double-entendres ("Would you like hot toast?or buttered buns?"). Raquel's own, equally broad brand of humor surfaced during shooting breaks. Once she and Moore repaired to a dressing trailer while the crew eavesdropped outside. Raquel, playful lass that she is, suggested that she and Dudley...