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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theory of presidential strategy has it that any new White House resident must stamp his signature on the times immediately or risk losing forever the chance to do so. Nixon construes his circumstances and opportunities differently?and with cause. He wants what one adviser calls "studious momentum." He is a minority President who faces an opposition majority on Capitol Hill, a centrist Republican who confronts a political left and right, both flaming with angry frustration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: NIXON'S MESSAGE: LET US GATHER THE LIGHT | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

Last week, Karami was trying to pull together a Cabinet from among Lebanon's fractious political parties, and shape a new policy toward Israel. Amid fears of an Israeli invasion of Lebanon's mountainous south, Lebanese debated whether to risk disaster at the hands of the Israelis, or to break all tradition, ally themselves with the Arab cause, and raise a powerful army-which could equally mean disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...significant is that civilization's splendid institutions owe a part of their balance to the wily jungle primate still surviving beneath man's cultural veneer. He is really a part of the design. His contribution, only just beginning to be perceived, can be ignored only at the risk of civilization itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Ethology: That Animal That Is Man | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...speaking. At a Southern school they might not have had enough. It is all a question of power. Should an "ungenuine" man -- and there are many of these around despite the basic goodness of man -- acquire power there would be no defense against his maranding in any principle. The risk is inescapable...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: Toward An Ethic of Political Conduct | 1/15/1969 | See Source »

...blood pressure, cholesterol levels, weight and smoking habits checked for a dozen years against their development of heart disease and their incidence of heart attacks. The Framingham results to date, says Dr. William B. Kannel, indicate that a man with high blood cholesterol has almost three times the average risk of a heart attack. More alarming, if one man is exposed to two threefold risk factors-a heavy smoker with high blood cholesterol, for example-the two risks are not added together but multiplied, thereby giving him approximately a ninefold disadvantage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: To Save the Heart: Diet by Decree? | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

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