Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Similar "bitching periods," as one politician has termed them, have borne little fruit in other years. But this year, says defeated Presidential Candidate George McGovern of South Dakota, may be different. "The public was alternately bored by the emptiness of Miami Beach and disgusted by the disorder and violence of Chicago," he noted. "Both of these conventions told just about all there is to tell about what's wrong with the convention system itself." If the public dismay is reflected in Congress, a proposal like Nelson's might well have a fighting chance for passage...
Revisionists and Zionists. In a development ominously similar to the scenario that preceded the invasion, Soviet Ambassador Stepan Chervonenko hastily flew from Prague to Moscow, where the Soviet Central Committee was in emergency session. Next day, Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov flew to Prague for talks with President Ludvik Svoboda, 72, whose sagacious firmness in the crisis has won him the affectionate nickname of "Iron Grandfather...
...they had rounded up 23 Arab suspects, two of them high school students captured moments after the bombs went off. The students confessed, and police said that they were members of a terrorist gang that set off three bombs in Jerusalem last month, one of which had sparked a similar Israeli rampage against Arabs. In the future, Tel Aviv will be safer, if not so clean: as a precaution, the city's sanitation department removed its metal litter baskets from the downtown streets...
...idea for the race came from Caltech Physics Graduate Wally Rippel, 23, whose experiences with Los Angeles' eye-smarting smog had inspired him to create a fumeless electric car two years ago. When he heard that students at M.I.T. were developing a similar electric model-as are several auto companies, including Ford, General Motors and American Motors-he challenged them to a transcontinental race. The aim of the operation: to stimulate interest in non-air-pollutant electrics...
Sears, Roebuck, the world's biggest retailer, has removed toy guns from its Christmas catalogue and ordered its 815 stores to stop advertising guns and "similar toys of violence." Department stores throughout the U.S. are "de-emphasizing" toy guns, which usually means that they are not placing new orders. In Manhattan, Bloomingdale's and Stern Bros, have even taken their exsting stock off the shelves. Payson Sawyer, 35, one of Maine's largest toy distributors and leader of a citizens' group called "Toy Disarmament," has earmarked his entire stock of toy guns for a big bonfire...