Word: reached
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next day the Viet Cong dynamited nine bridges in a calculated effort to make it difficult for voters to reach polling places. The day after, two Communist platoons overran the provincial capital of Quang Ngai, shelling...
...efforts to doctor Britain's faltering economy with doses of austerity, Prime Minister Harold Wilson has lately managed to look more like a quack dispensing dubious pills. Unemployment climbed to a 27-year peak of 559,000 last month, and that total is generally expected to reach 750,000 by winter. Industrial production has stagnated for nearly a year. Foreign-exchange earnings, the crucial source of support for the British pound, have risen, but at a disappointing rate. Under increasing critical attack both within and without his own Labor Party, Wilson last week called up a surprise reinforcement: himself...
...paper enthusiastically covers and spends evenings at home with his wife Jill and their four children. In his spare time, he has written a recently published novel, The Moonflower Couple, which dwells a lot on clothes while disdaining the fashionable people who wear them. His main ambition is to reach more readers. He takes satisfaction in the fact that twelve large U.S. dailies syndicate material from Women's Wear. Once all his publications are in the black, he hopes to start a general news daily for women, who, he says, "exercise far more control over the world than...
...breadbox-size playback unit, which would send audio-visual signals into the antenna terminals of the TV set. A seven-inch cartridge, resembling a discus, could play up to 30 minutes in color, an hour in black and white. Now called Electronic Video Recording (EVR), the system may reach the U.S. market...
Lacoste is much more than a shirtmaker. He is already enshrined in an athletic valhalla that Daughter Catherine may never reach. Son of a prosperous Parisian airplane-engine maker, Lacoste dropped out of mechanical engineering studies to play tennis. He played so well that he was twice Forest Hills and Wimbledon champion as well as three-time champion of France. He was a member of the only French team that ever won the Davis Cup (1927, with Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon as fellow team members). Lacoste played so fiercely that sportswriters dubbed him le Crocodile. When...