Word: specialized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Last week's show probing the generation gap between fathers and sons is followed here with an exploration of the chasm between "Mothers and Daughters...
Striking Hard. The bill is a sound one. In addition to repealing the 7% investment-tax credit as recommended by President Nixon, it strikes at what most taxpayers regard, perhaps justifiably, as the very citadel of special tax privilege - the 27½% oil-depletion allowance. By cutting the allowance to 20% and reducing the depletion advantages for other extractive industries, the bill would enrich the Treasury by $400 million annually. Although oilmen plan to fight the cuts in the Senate, their wound could be worse. The bill leaves untouched the industry's far more valuable advantage of writing...
...would have been much easier just to amputate the arm," he said. "But they operated and saved it." Risner told the peace group that even at the height of the bombing around Hanoi in 1967, his captors treated him for kidney stones and put him on a special diet. He reported that medics regularly check the prisoners. Once illnesses are reported to guards, the prisoner receives prompt attention. According to Risner, each prisoner has two sets of clothes, a blanket, soap and toothbrush...
...stunned the world by refusing to devalue the franc, which was already weak and unsteady. Pompidou, a former Rothschild banker, could not bring himself to defy reality. "Common sense advises us to align the franc on a rate recognized in foreign markets," he explained to the French in a special statement. "We content ourselves with taking note of a fact and acting...
Although they are the most glamorous and publicized soldiers of the Viet Nam war, the U.S. Army's elite Special Forces have always been enveloped in the sinister. Highly trained in guerrilla and psychological warfare, they operate covertly on the fringes of battle. They often ignore the nominal rules of war in their day-to-day battle for survival in isolated rural areas...