Word: reachings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talked of during the campaign, Nixon's prospects for a successful Administration are practically nil. Beyond Viet Nam, Nixon is pledged to a "new diplomacy." Its aim is to concentrate heavily on the search for common ground with the Soviets and the rehabilitation of the Atlantic Alliance, to reach understanding
Perhaps Lowry's most forceful triumph in Under the Volcano, however, is his evocation of a totally isolated personality in the midst of people whose efforts to reach him seem quietly irrelevant. In the scene which switched me from an admirer to a believer, Lowry places the Consul between his wife and his half-brother on a crowded bus to Tomalin, the scene of the Consul's death. He then moves the wife and half-brother between a last hope of involving the Consul in conversation, of rescuing him from his suicidal self-absorption, and the recognition that...
...Will the U.S. economy continue to expand in the year ahead? One reliable clue can be found in capital spending, the money that businessmen invest in new plant and equipment. This year's outlay will reach about $64.5 billion, and until recently, forecasters had expected little if any gain in 1969. Behind the pessimism were two negative portents: capital spending fell by an annual rate of $2 billion in this year's second quarter; and in the third quarter, the nation's plants were producing at 83.3% of capacity, a five-year low. Even so, economic signals...
...automakers are scheduling about 8% more production than in last December. Ford Vice President Matt McLaughlin sums up the expansive mood: "It looks like the question will not be whether we'll break 9,500,000 or even 9,600,000 this year, but whether we can reach...
None of the oil is likely to reach U.S. markets until 1971. The companies and the Alaskan state government are still mulling over ways to move it. The companies prefer a pipeline to a relatively ice-free port like Valdez. The line would have to weather destructive ground heaves caused by summer thaws and winter freezes and could cost $500 million or more. Alaska's Governor Walter J. Hickel is pushing his longtime dream of extending the Alaska Railroad beyond its present Fairbanks terminal all the way to the Arctic Sea. Washington's Department of Transportation, which runs...