Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protests have so far failed to stir the mass of Italians-and so have the elections. Reason: the average Italian has never had it so good, Italy last year boasted a growth rate of 6%, sec ond only to Japan among industrialized countries. One Italian family in two now has its own car; virtually all have a television set, and often a refrigerator and washing machine to boot. The nationwide impact of television is relentlessly nibbling away at Italian regionalism, making Italians in the south more like Italians in the north, and making both of them hunger for the good...
...sign on one of the freshman dorms in the Yard read "RFK for President--McCarthy for Sec. of State." Silly as it was, it indicated a number of things. First, most of the students who are against the war and have hitherto supported McCarthy will now flock to the sure winner, the only man who can get us out of the mess. Second, it showed that we have come to realize how important the office of Secretary of State is, that it dwarfs the Vice-presidency. And third, it revealed a naivete about what things will be like once Bobby...
...Russians. They also took it on the chin in ladies' cross-country skiing from a blonde Swedish snow bunny named Toini Gustafsson. A gymnastics teacher, Toini already had won the 10-kilometer cross-country; in the 5-kilometer, trailing Russia's Galina Koulakova by 4 sec. with one kilometer to go, she made a kamikaze dive down the last slope to earn a second gold medal...
...than he was when he astonished everyone by winning the men's 500-meter speed-skating race at Innsbruck in 1964. This time, on a rink that the sun had turned into slush, Terry surprised the experts again by finishing second in the 500-meter-barely .2 sec. behind West Germany's Erhard Keller...
...accrued but unpaid G.M. bonuses. He also abandoned options to buy at least 30,000 more shares of G.M. common stock, although he insisted that he would keep the 42,507 shares he already owns. For the time being, Knudsen's Ford pay remains undisclosed (under SEC rules, it must be divulged to stockholders in April before Ford's annual meeting...