Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whole Crowd. The lack of real pressure until Rockefeller began booming last month made it easy for Nixon to avoid mistakes of the past. He gets plenty of rest. His appearances are so scrupulously planned and executed that his staff calls them "drills." He has complemented his basic speech, which is mostly a catalogue of Administration sins, with some thoughtful papers that have provoked serious discussion. He gets along better with the press than ever before, al though he is still not exactly chummy with reporters. A "new" Nixon? The next few months will be a better test. Meanwhile, Julius...
...situation once again, faced with a massive threat to their independence from the Soviet Union and its hard-lining allies. Despite verbal pledges of support from some of its Communist neighbors and muted cheers from the West, the country knew from experience that, whatever happened, it could expect no real help from the outside. In a moment of peril, it could rely only on its own political acumen, patience and resourcefulness as a nation...
Battering Ram. Having beautified old Bargème, la Patronne became worried about property development around it. To prevent real estate sharks from cashing in on the town's new attractiveness, she persuaded André Malraux's Culture Ministry in Paris to classify the town as a historical site, thus forbidding new structures on lots of less than 2½ acres. The decree hit Bargème like a battering ram: many villagers, it turned out, had hoped to parcel off their own land at premium prices to wealthy Parisian weekenders. Led by fighting-mad Mayor Isnard...
...White Memorial Medical Center, the Analyzer was ranged against cardiologists using ECG machines. The new device thought it saw abnormalities in 5.6% of cases where they did not exist, which only meant a bit more work for the experts. On the other hand, it failed to detect a real abnormality in 2.7% of the cases examined. But Thiokol scientists say this percentage can be reduced by technical changes...
Going into the second half of 1968, the Commerce Department last week reported that in the first six months of the year, the U.S. economy grew at a real rate (i.e., not including inflation) of 5%. In the second quarter, the nation's output of goods and services increased by $19.6 billion, which was only a shade under the first quarter's record $20.2 billion. Corporate profits more than kept up the brisk pace. Among the early reports...