Word: reached
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...helicopter bearing Hubert Humphrey eased deliberately through the chill twilight so as not to reach the White House lawn ahead of the TV cameras. It was the only leisurely part of his homecoming. The Vice President stepped from the chopper into Lyndon Johnson's capacious abrazo, then plunged into a hectic round of briefings and appearances. Having stumped nine Far Eastern countries to solicit support for the Johnson Administration's Viet Nam policy, his task last week was to convert the critics back home...
...Thoreau, limned by Eakins and Wyeth. The ganglia of history's richest nation lie today in the inchoate, intermeshed agglomerations of city, suburb and country that have become Megalopolis americanus. Such is its present rate of growth that by century's end, one concrete conurbation will reach from Portland, Me., to Norfolk, Va., in the East, another from the Mexican border to San Francisco in the West...
...part of their new realism, the Soviet planners also softened the emphasis on heavy industry and called for more consumer goods. By 1970 they hope to double production of television sets, treble the production of refrigerators and quadruple the production of cars. Yet even if Soviet automakers reach the goal-some 800,000 units a year-output would still amount to little more than one-twelfth of the U.S. production...
...they need. Their project requires an entire philosophy of life, a philosophy based on practicality and the value of direct experience. A Choice I Made embodies that philosophy, and at the same time, the highly sophisticated technique of the film insures that the finer points of that philosophy will reach the audience...
...later encounters the handiwork of that prestigious Manhattan partnership, Lehman Bros. The 116-year-old firm not only provides much of the money that finances these and other U.S. industries, but has spread out to become a diversified department-store of high finance. This week Lehman (pronounced Leeman) will reach across the Atlantic Ocean: as co-managers with London's N.M. Rothschild & Sons of a consortium of 68 international banking concerns, Lehman will put on sale the first $27.5 million of bonds to finance a $138 million, 300-mile transalpine oil pipeline. The issue is expected to become...