Word: rising
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Buying Time. The professors deplored "the recent rise of isolationist sentiment in the U.S.," and the fact that "many Americans find Asia remote and marginal to their interests." As for what the nation's position should be, "The ability to develop and defend policies attuned to limited objectives-including a policy of limited war-has become the vital test of the U.S. today. Our opponents count upon our impatience, our impetuousness, our immaturity. They must be proven wrong...
...forbids the sale of alcohol in four counties out of five. Widely blanketed by local prohibition laws, the South teems not only with "brown bag" joints, to which the patron brings his own bottle in a paper bag, but also with moonshine distilleries. Yet legal drinking is on the rise throughout the South; the last holdout state, Mississippi, repealed its prohibition law last year...
...follow the course of the actual missions, Momyer moves to the plotting room for Operation Rolling Thunder (a twin room plots the tactical air strikes in South Viet Nam). There, sitting in a glass "cab" in the center, he is surrounded by 23 maps and charts that rise seven feet from the floor. Any area Momyer is interested in lights up when he presses on the glass face of the map. On each is charted in grease pencil the flight path of the attackers, any weather changes, and encounters with MIGs or missiles. If he wants to alter something, Momyer...
...company's cars, as well as its heavy duty trucks, buses and engines, which account for more than 40% of its business, should easily match last year's record $1.26 billion, yield more than $20 million in profits. And its exports to 160 countries will rise by 9% to 100,000 cars. Recession? Scoffs Dr. Joachim Zahn, Daimler's 53-year-old chief: "We at Mercedes were ready...
...encouraging side in this time of lagging sales of durable goods, most notably in the strike-afflicted auto industry. Though Detroit is still feeling strike effects-auto sales in the first ten days of December were running 12% behind last year-the industry continues to count on a sharp rise on 1968 sales charts. One automaker, Henry Ford II, last week predicted that next year's car and truck sales will be up by 900,000, matching 1965's record sales of 9,300,000. Even if a demand-dampening tax increase is enacted, said Ford...