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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE DOUBLE-HEADER (NBC, 2 p.m. to conclusion). The Buffalo Bills v. the Kansas City Chiefs at Kansas City, followed by the Oakland Raiders v. the San Diego Chargers at San Diego. The NBC News Sunday Report is sandwiched in at half time...
...said, prices were higher in Bedford- Stuyvesant than they were in nearby Flatbush, a middle-class area; totaled up, the difference was as much as $1. Making the arithmetic even more onerous is the fact that people in the slums spend up to 33% of their income on food v. 23% for all Americans...
...minority in Greece by disbanding various Turkish landholding and cultural organizations and for refusing to grant the Turkish air force the right to overfly the Aegean Sea. Coldly assessing the situation, the Turks reckoned that they had the Greeks outgunned (480,000 men under arms and 450 combat aircraft v. Greece's 158,000 men and 250 warplanes) and that moreover, the Greek junta had almost no international support and would be likely to back down on the Cyprus issue. Because Cyprus is so much nearer to Asia Minor than to Greece, the Turks also felt that their planes...
...Market, since that was one of the conditions made by France and the Common Market Commission. But Charles de Gaulle, far from trying to create a prosperous Europe that would include Britain, seemed more bent on mischief. De Gaulle's machinations, charged no less an authority than Robert V. Roosa, former U.S. Treasury Under Secretary, began a month ago when the French President caught the scent of approaching trouble for the pound. Hoping to demonstrate that Britain is unfit for Common Market membership, the French began a clandestine campaign to create a sterling crisis by spreading damaging rumors...
...success, since they have now set up one of their own. It is called the International Youth Service of Solidarity and Friendship and has nearly 1,000 volunteers from Russia and Eastern Europe at work. Last week it announced that it will raise its strength to 2,500 (v. the U.S. Peace Corps' 14,000). The boss of the Red Peace Corps is Bulgarian Ivan Ganev, who runs the outfit from a crumbling villa in Budapest...