Word: renewal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Late to Bed. The dispute between France and Britain over the future of NATO and the Common Market clouded all the President's efforts to renew communications with Europe. The war in Viet Nam also was very much on his mind. Even as he took off from Washington's Andrews Air Force Base, he was being informed of fresh Communist attacks and U.S. uncertainty over how the new offensive would affect the still desultory Paris peace talks (see THE WORLD...
...fencing team will renew Ivy competition Saturday when they travel to Princeton to face the league's first-place team...
...representatives of local communes and departments, and appointed officials such as chamber of commerce presidents. These councils will levy local taxes, prepare local budgets and plan economic development. If the plan is approved in the forthcoming referendum-and that approval seems almost certain-the regions may be able to "renew their personality," as French Technocrat Louis Armand once put it, "without having to do it through that monster that is Paris...
...same time, he is subtly disengaging himself from unpopular De Gaulle positions. Though he agreed with the Israeli embargo, he did not like De Gaulle's innuendo that Jews unduly influenced the French press. Pompidou also believes, in light of Russian intransigence over Czechoslovakia, that France should renew Western ties weakened by De Gaulle. Significantly, his 1969 agenda tentatively includes trips to the U.S., Mexico and Canada, as well as tours of the French provinces to discuss domestic problems. His next major venture: a February appearance in Geneva where, for the benefit of a French audience, he will speak...
Proper Credit. Blough sought to improve U.S. Steel's fortunes largely by paring its work force, consolidating its sprawling divisions and ending a costly overlap of sales offices. More recently he has loosened the purse strings in a somewhat belated effort to renew the company's plants. As part of a threeyear, $1.8 billion spending program that began in 1966, U.S. Steel has installed ten oxygen furnaces, is now phasing in one of the world's biggest continuous casting lines at Gary, Ind. It has also abandoned its lofty refusal to cut prices to meet foreign competition...