Word: richard
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GOODBYE, COLUMBUS. A newcomer named Ali MacGraw and her costar, Richard Benjamin, shine in this otherwise lackluster adaptation of Philip Roth's novella of being young, in love and Jewish in suburbia...
...Richard Nixon established the Environmental Quality Council, a Cabinet-level advisory group designed to coordinate governmental action against environmental decay at all levels, create new proposals to control pollution, and foresee problems. Dr. Lee DuBridge, Nixon's science adviser and the executive secretary of the council, indicated that initial areas of specific concern may be air pollution caused by auto exhausts, and the dangers of pesticides such as DDT. Undoubtedly the council will also concern itself with establishing basic environmental policies. If the new group can fulfill its mandate and win congressional cooperation, progressive national legislation controlling pollution will...
...late 1940s, as a vehemently anti-Communist Congressman, Richard Nixon charged that then Secretary of State Dean Acheson suffered from "a form of pinkeye toward the Communist threat in the U.S." Twenty years have changed both men, and last week Acheson turned up to help Nixon in the President's battle to win congressional approval of the Administration's Safeguard anti-ballistic-missile system. Democrat Acheson, along with former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Nitze and Albert Wohlstetter, a nuclear-war strategist at the University of Chicago, announced that they were forming a bipartisan group of scientists, professors...
...said Nelson Rockefeller as he disembarked at Ecuador's Mariscal Sucre Airport last week on the second of four fact-finding tours of Latin America for President Richard Nixon. He soon encountered hard realities. Leftist students were out in force to give Rocky the most hostile reception of his travels thus far. A helicopter hovered protectively over the gray Mercedes carrying the New York Governor as it inched through back streets to avoid the mobs. The students fought police with bricks and stones. Stores, banks and schools shut down, traffic was paralyzed, and the smell of tear gas wafted...
...world's most populous nation (750 million people) seems convinced that the world's most powerful is bent on destroying it at the first chance. It cannot be proved, of course, that a different U.S. attitude would have produced a different mood in China. But as Richard Nixon observed during last year's campaign: "We simply cannot afford to leave China forever outside the family of nations, there to nurture its fantasies, cherish its hates, threaten its neighbors. There is no place on this small planet for a billion of its potentially most able people to live...