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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...axiomatic that if Lyndon Johnson could walk, he would run for a second term. But in the months preceding his withdrawal, his problems mounted relentlessly. The nation was so divided over Viet Nam that it was no longer possible for the President or many of his Cabinet members to travel without the danger of a rowdy demonstration. Another summer of racial riots in the black ghettos seemed certain. The U.S. dollar was being brutally battered by foreign gold speculators. Not least among the factors affecting his decision was the unforeseen strength of Senators Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy in their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE RENUNCIATION | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

...thirds fare will be effective at all times on the Eastern shuttle. Other Eastern flights will be open to youth fare passengers only from noon Monday to noon Friday, and noon Saturday to midnight Saturday until May 31 when the restrictions on travel between midnight Friday and noon Saturday urday will be lifted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Airlines Curtail Youth Fare Program | 4/11/1968 | See Source »

...started to improve and widen them. At the Government Tourist Bureau in Tel Aviv I asked how I could get to Nablus, the most prosperous city of the West Bank, some 50 miles from Tel Aviv. I was informed that there was no bus, unless I wanted to travel via Jerusalem. So I went...

Author: By Yehudy Lindeman, | Title: Bogeymen in the Mid-East | 4/9/1968 | See Source »

...same time there is unemployment. Mayor Kan'an emphasizes this. He admits that there is always a job shortage in Nablus. But previously a man would travel to Amman, Kuwait or Saudi Arabia to find employment, often sending money to his family which remained on the West Bank. Now the frontiers are closed. Naturally the Arabs hold the Jews responsible for this economic hardship...

Author: By Yehudy Lindeman, | Title: Bogeymen in the Mid-East | 4/9/1968 | See Source »

...Never. Deep-dyed fatalism and the durable myth of Frankenstein surface from Durrell's dazzling assemblage. There are reams of the kind of beautiful travel and nature writing for which his Bitter Lemons, Prospero's Cell and Reflections on a Marine Venus have been praised. There are flashes of the ribald wit that makes his volumes about the British diplomatic corps such delights. But there is also much over writing. The book is littered with show-off phrases such as "alembicated piety" and "the penetralia of one's self-regard." The mixed metaphors are painful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Abel Is the Novel, Merlin Is The Firm | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

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