Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans take leave of an extraordinary year, they can recall endless days when the front pages of their daily newspapers seemed to suggest that everything - and everyone - is corrupt...
...returns suggest that Venezuelans rather like choosing between the political equivalent of Coke and Pepsi. The two major parties together cornered roughly 85% of the votes cast, in a field of twelve candidates ranging from the extreme left to the far right. This was seen by political observers as a trend toward a two-party system that, if it continues, could give the country a more stable political system. Of the eleven countries in South America, Venezuela along with Colombia, and possibly Argentina, are the only working democracies. The big loser in the election was former Dictator Perez Jimenez...
...state of affairs might matter less in an ordinary thriller than it does here, in a melodrama concerning the assassination of John Kennedy. The film makers state in a disclaimer that they do not maintain that a conspiracy to assassinate the President did actually exist. They want only to suggest how such a conspiracy "might have happened...
Next Plane. Extradition is, by theory and by treaty, a judicial and diplomatic minuet, in which all the refinements are respected. In practice, as the narcotics cases suggest, it is often otherwise. The formula used to be that the expelling nation put the fugitive forcefully aboard "the next direct ship." In 1930 New York Gangster Jack ("Legs") Diamond was returned to the U.S. from Germany in just that manner. Today the formula is "the next plane out," and sometimes that happens even when there is no extradition treaty. Afghanistan has none with the U.S. but when Timothy Leary...
...freight-carrying version of Amtrak, which runs the nation's passenger trains. If the United Rail Corp. is profitable, holders of Ginnie Rae's bonds could eventually exchange them for stock in the corporation, turning it into a privately owned company. There is little evidence, though, to suggest that the line would be a moneymaker. If it is not, the Government will end up sole owner-at a cost of several billion dollars in debt that it would have to repay on top of about $ 1 billion in cash it will fork out to get the corporation rolling...