Word: switches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lyndon Johnson's unhappy relations with the intelligentsia have not impaired his uncanny skill for dealing with the tough-minded thinkers who are the stars of U.S. diplomacy. Rounding out his foreign bargaining team after former Attorney General Nicholas DeB. Katzenbach's switch to the State Department, the President used his special brand of persuasiveness to retain two consummate professionals in Government service long after retirement age and introduce an internationally minded businessman to the delicate art of bar gaining among nations...
...forge a heavy industrial base. Now that Russia can afford to ogle the age of affluence, it needs not rigid central planning but the flexibility of a market economy using such Western techniques as profits to measure performance and buyers' wants to dictate output. Kosygin has promised to switch all Russian enterprise away from rigid central planning by 1968. Already 673 firms employing some 2,000,000 workers have made the changeover, with so far a notable improvement in performance. But until Soviet prices begin to reflect demand, a truly freer economy will remain a mirage. Last week...
What the Republicans did not count on was the switch to Maddox of segregationists who supported Callaway this summer when everyone thought Arnall would be an easy victor in the Democratic race. The great irony of the whole campaign is that the Republicans painted themselves into a corner...
...Reagan and General Electric Theater went off the air, and Ronnie signed up with Borax as the permanent host on television's Death Valley Days. He also decided to switch his own sponsorship and register as a Republican. "It did not happen easily," he says. "Changing registration is almost like changing religion...
Munro acknowledged this development at this season's outset when he shifted to the three-fullback defense that has become standard in college soccer. The 2-0 loss to Amherst, however, made him immediately switch his attention to offense...