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Word: reachings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Egyptian military vehicles. They were machine-gunned. Sentries were shot down before they could reach for their guns. Some men asleep in guard posts along the road died without waking when Israeli engineers leaped out of the half-tracks and slid satchel charges into the huts where they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: MIDDLE EAST: THE WAR AND THE WOMAN | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

Both papers claim that they investigated the charges and found them unwarranted, so refutation or corroboration is likely to come only in the libel trial-if the case ever reaches a courtroom. Libel suits, and the threat of libel suits, are an embarrassed public official's reflex response to exposure. Yet few suits ever reach the trial stage, particularly in the light of recent Supreme Court decisions involving libel of public figures. To win, Alioto must prove malicious intent or utter carelessness in checking on the part of Look, Carlson and Brisson. Butts won his case because the Post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Muckraking: The Mayor v. the Magazine | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...Abortion, believes that the new act is still too vague, but applauds the new ruling. He believes that it provides a weighty precedent for court action in other states and affirms a legal trend in recent years that would make all such intimate matters a private concern beyond the reach of the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Constitutional Rights: Guideline on Abortion | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...have found one couple who learned to make love in a tiny Citroën "Deux Chevaux" auto-after they persuaded the man's dog to remain in the back seat. Serious social scientists are not sure that Baroche interviewed a sufficiently wide variety of Frenchmen to reach any valid conclusions. Still, he talked to enough to find one man who asked, "How does it happen that I have never deceived my wife?" then shrugged and answered his own question: "I don't want to complicate my life. I must be the exception that proves the rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex: Brief Is Best | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...goals he set-if achieved-could make France the envy of other nations. Moreover, he ambitiously promised to reach those goals in less than a year. They are: 1) a balanced budget by Jan. 1, 1970, 2) an "equilibrium" between consumption and production by April 1, and 3) an end to France's foreign-trade deficit by July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Strategy for Stability | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

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