Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many women in foreign countries, seeking to be "modern" like the emancipated American woman, turned from breast feeding to formula. But because of lack of careful sterilization methods, the infant mortality rate rose. Could not the Peace Corps be effective in re-educating these women? How many dollars would be saved in our foreign aid food programs if thousands of these women would return to their older, superior method...
...Panama Canal. A pilot flying from Bermuda to New York advised passengers on takeoff-accurately, as it turned out-of his three-hour flight plan: "Two to get there and one to circle." American Airlines reported that the previous week's average 88-min. delay at Kennedy rose last week to one day's average of 3 hr. 14 min. on the Chicago-to-New York run. Before the crisis, rush-hour delays at Kennedy averaged...
...record "the Rake's Progress" and his economic forecast "hooey" and "complacent nonsense." The British are not used to such harsh, direct attacks on their politicians, and Heath's blast prompted that unorthodox but stoutly Tory peer Lord Boothby to come to Wilson's defense. Boothby rose in the House of Lords and, in ironic tones, took note of Wilson's ability to recover. "The Prime Minister may not walk on the water today," he said, "but I believe he may well be walking on the water the day after tomorrow." (Laughter in the House...
...without a surcharge, the economy in some ways had been tapering off on its own. Retail sales have leveled off since March, and inventories have gone up as a result. For the second quarter of 1968, the gross national product-the sum total of everything produced in the U.S.-rose $19.6 billion rather than the $20 billion to $22 billion that had been estimated. Government economists, believing that the economy is malleable, intend to take it from there. Once the surtax has cooled off the inflationary situation, Washington experts intend to heat up the economy again...
...massive crowd's ovation rose as McCarthy strode in from left field like Yaz. Hundreds of red, white and blue McCarthy balloons drifted upwards. The crowd then started up "we want Gene." After a few minutes they stopped and McCarthy began to speak--calmly and quietly...