Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overcome the strike setbacks, Premier Couve de Murville has turned to "the only policy imaginable" - swift economic expansion. In keeping with that goal, the French Cabinet last week unveiled a 1969 budget that calls for an 11% increase in government spending, to $30 billion. While creating a deficit of about $2.5 billion, such outlays are expected to help boost French industrial production by 7% next year, enabling the French economy to achieve a substantial 5½% to 6% growth...
...Millennium. At any rate, the 29th G.O.P. Convention, looking up at its nominee, was not in a mood for character analysis. After a conclave made dull by the swift rout of Nixon's foes and enlivened only briefly by a spat over the vice-presidential nomination, it was time for exultation. One thing that his detractors have never under stood about Nixon is his total identification with the Republican Party and his understanding of it. His acceptance speech was pure Nixon, telling it as the party would like it to be?1968 style...
Both universities accept the need for merger, if only reluctantly. Founded by Queen Elizabeth I in 1591, Trinity College has been one of the few centers of free, unfettered thought in Ireland. Its graduates include Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, and Samuel Beckett. Faculty traditionalists fear that the school will lose its élan and its independence in the merger. There is also some Protestant concern about a "Papist takeover." It has been noted that Dublin's Archbishop John C. McQuaid still sends out an annual pastoral letter warning Catholics that attendance at Trinity is a mortal...
...cheer. The Vice President has promised to issue a major Viet Nam statement in the near future, but Johnson's more-of-the-same policy makes it difficult for him to say anything that does not either repudiate the President or disappoint those who want to see a swift end to the war. For the time being, he contented himself with a thinly veiled rebuke to his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Eugene McCarthy. "Peace talkers are 10?a dozen today," Humphrey said at a dinner-dance at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. "Peaceworkers, peacemakers are priceless...
...Riverine Force. The Aid Boats, bristling with machine guns, grenade launchers and a cannon, are able to go to the rescue. Wounded are picked up and shuttled away from enemy fire, then quickly evacuated on "dust-off" helicopters to the nearest U.S. hospital. In the festering Delta, such swift care of combat wounds often spells the difference between life and death...