Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deal for the Communists to control some districts and compete in others would work only if the North VietNamese troops left the country. A massive stumbling block here is that nobody can conceive of an effective means to guarantee that the Northerners get out and stay out, or that the Viet Cong really halt their terror. That job is supposed to be done now by the three-nation International Control Commission (Canada, India, Poland), a leftover from the Geneva Conference of 1954. But the commission lacks the manpower, vehicles and-on the part of its Polish and Indian members...
...life, took a day's flying tour to inspect ranches, explaining: "Here I feel like I'm back among my own people." Australians apparently feel the same way. Some 4,000 families have standing offers for visiting G.I.s to live at their homes during their R & R stay...
They'd know that jaunty saunter 0anywhere. Bob Hope comes onstage with the cocky glide of a golfer who has just knocked off three birdies for a 68 and nailed Arnold Palmer to the clubhouse door. The crooked grin spreads wide, the clear brown eyes stay cool, and the audience roars its welcome; they can hardly wait for Hope to sock it to them. And so he does. Five, six gags a minute. Pertinent, impertinent, leering, perishing. And sometimes plopping, but only for an instant. When he misses, the famous scooped snoot shoots defiantly skyward, the prognathous jaw drops...
...Reuther's vow, in the event that last week's talks faltered, to set the same strike deadline for both national and local contracts. Rather than attempt the sticky business of negotiating those pacts simultaneously, G.M.'s new president, Edward N. Cole, pressed his men to stay at the bargaining table until they could get the national contract...
...people will start spending more and saving less. In recent months, uncertainty over inflation, the Viet Nam war and the possibility of a federal tax increase have prompted consumers to salt away an abnormally high 7% of their disposable income savings. They also have been taking extra pains to stay out of debt; installment credit is expected to grow by only $3.5 billion in 1967 v. $6 billion last year. While such thriftiness has hurt sales up to now, it means over the long run, says one Federal Reserve Board economist, that the average consumer is "in a better position...