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Word: perring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adulterous wife with all manner of "legal" compensation. The American wife-mother is still the greatest answer to prostitution and not punishment by courts. Whores unite! Marry. This will give you legal sanction. Husbands consider! How many families would live in luxury if the household account were increased $10 per minute for Mrs.'s "indiscretions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 1, 1967 | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

...Federal Government showed any interest in the cities, it had its own poverty and manpower-training projects, a rent-supplement demonstration, and a promising Head Start program. Washington has rewarded the city's imaginative urban-renewal administration with a greatly disproportionate share of federal renewal money-$852 per capita (given or pledged), or six times as much as Philadelphia, in terms of population, 17 times as much as Chicago, 20 times as much as New York. Indeed, Robert Weaver, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, once observed that New Haven (pop. 142,000) came closest to "our dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: No Haven | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

...arms sales abroad; there was also the problem that deliveries already promised are simply not coming through. For at least four years, Washington repeatedly turned down Hussein's requests for some jet fighters. Not until Russia offered the King null at a bargain $70,000 per plane last year did the Administration finally decide to sell Hussein 36 F-104s. The shipment has yet to arrive. The Shah also complained that the U.S. has yet to deliver the two squadrons of F-4 Phantoms that were promised to Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Blunt Business | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

...Largely as a result of McClellan's jeremiads, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's request for $287 million to buy 20 F-lllBs for Navy testing was rudely rejected by the committee, which approved only $147,900,000 for eight of the swing-wing ships. The higher cost per plane includes design changes and ground-support gear as well as custom fabrication of the plane itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Problem Bird | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

...capacity, is small." It is surprisingly small: "Intelligence estimates suggest that the quantity of externally supplied material, other than food, required to support the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces in South Viet Nam at about their current level of combat activity is significantly under 100 tons per day-a quantity that could be transported by only a few trucks." Therefore, "complete interdiction of these supplies has never been considered possible by our military leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: McNAMARA ON BOMBING THE NORTH | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

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