Word: present
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Present-day spy planes, with their elaborate electronic gadgetry, come in two main varieties. The more glamorous type is the fast, sleek jet that darts through another country's airspace to photograph anything of military interest, from missile installations to arms depots. Best known is the subsonic U2, which precipitated a major cold-war crisis when the Soviet Union shot down one piloted by Francis Gary Powers in 1960. Its replacement is the SR-71, the 2,000-m.p.h. Blackbird, which is probably the world's fastest airplane in sustained flight (TIME, April...
...long range, he urged innovation in social programs, including a total-and long-needed-restructuring of the archaic federal-state-local welfare complex. "Our studies," he said of the welfare field, "have demonstrated that tinkering with the present system is not enough. We need a complete reappraisal and redirection." One immediate measure to help the poor will be submitted to Congress this week, when Nixon will recommend that all those below the Government's poverty line ($3,300 for a family of four) be released from any obligation to pay federal income taxes. Many poor people now have...
...57th birthday of Kim II Sung, Premier of North Korea. The downed U.S. Navy aircraft and the 31 American victims were in a way a grim birthday present from his own armed forces. Some analysts believe that he requested the present-that he issued instructions for another incident at the right moment, a sort of flying Pueblo. What makes Kim and his regime act that...
Athenian Democracy. The Harvard Corporation offered its prescription on Sunday, three days after the police "bust." Five moderate students were invited to present their views to the corporation at the Quincy Street residence of President Pusey. Then the corporation created a new, 68-member advisory board of students, professors and administrators to consult with the president in times of crisis. The corporation reiterated its support of last February's faculty decision to strip ROTC of academic credit and ordered a fresh report on the university expansion program, which is accused by many students of dispossessing poor blacks from their...
...Corporation is the enemy of the Vietnamese and American People. Don't Scab." To avoid violating the picket lines, some professors moved their classes outdoors. In one physics lab, someone had chalked on the blackboard: "No classes today -no ruling class tomorrow." The instructor told the five students present that the phrase constituted the day's lesson...