Word: reference
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Size and efficiency indeed were two elements that frightened the ICC when it first considered and turned down by a 6-to-5 vote a merger of lines that railroad men refer to as "The Northerns." The Government feared that the G.N.P. & B. would hurt competitors, notably the Milwaukee Road and the Chicago & North Western. Those two roads, which are also intent on merging, withdrew their opposition to the G.N.P. & B. after the Milwaukee was allowed access to such cities as Billings, Mont., and Portland, Ore. and to Canadian points that had all previously been terminals only of The Northerns...
...tour a nuclear testing center at Cadarache and toasted workers with champagne at the huge Pierrelatte plant where uranium is enriched for use in a planned French H-bomb. The force will never approach in destructive capability the weaponry of the big powers-some of its critics still refer to it as the force de farce -but De Gaulle has none the less given the French a nuclear sting capable of destroying major cities and millions of people. And unlike the Chinese, the French have the means to deliver that sting to targets...
...between a mediocre public leadership and an increasingly talented society." Just as they have turned against ideology, the brighter young Russians are now reluctant to go in for a party career. In an otherwise routine and un interesting anniversary speech last week, Brezhnev went so far as to refer to his regime as Russia's "New Frontier." The use of the slogan of John F. Kennedy's Administration may have been more than a coincidence: many Russian youths are admirers of the late U.S. President...
...similar bill reported to the House of Representatives would give the board new powers to investigate subversives, but the Senate voted to keep it substantially as it is, with one proviso: if the Attorney General does not refer any cases to it, it will go out of existence in January 1969. Whatever version emerges, it appears certain that, barring an unexpected presidential veto, SACB will live...
...three such calls to come through while I was with Baird. "I'm not enthusiastic about abortions." Baird told me. "What I would like to do is make sure abortions don't have to happen, by making contraceptives available to those who want them. In the meantime, I can refer people who ask my help to competent doctors. Of course, what I'm doing is a serious state offense, but these folks need someone...