Word: v
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidates are edging closer in other respects as well. Back in June, the California Poll gave Reagan 52% of the state's vote v. 37% for Brown and 11% undecided. Since then, many Democratic voters who supported Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty in the Democratic primary have been trickling back to the Brown fold. As a result, the latest California Poll shows that Reagan now holds only a hairsbreadth lead, 46% to 43%. A more direct popularity test came last week when both candidates and the usual panoply of show-biz celebrities rode in a parade commemorating Los Angeles...
...fought futilely for a federal "Doctors' Bill" that would open the mails to birth control information and devices. Victory came by a more roundabout route. She had ordered a new Japanese pessary sent to an associate, Dr. Hannah Stone, and it was seized by U.S. Customs. In U.S. v. One Package, U.S. District Court Judge Grover Moscowitz dismissed the Government's suit, ordered the package delivered. When, in 1937, Attorney General Homer Cummings announced that the Government would not carry the case to the Supreme Court, the mails were opened for good, although it was not until last...
...many economists are beginning to worry that the stage may be being set for a recession that will follow on inflation's heels. Some of the building blocks that have historically marked recessions, in fact, have already been laid in place. The extraordinary tightness of money, warns Robert V. Roosa, former Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs in both the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, means that unless the Federal Reserve Board is careful to act in a "delicate and sensitive way," it "could bring the whole financial mechanism grinding to a halt...
...Tahiti in Saint-Tropez on the French Riviera is the place one goes to if one is too rich to bother with the Taj Mahal. Last week, amid the wandering beer barons and compliant courtesans, a newcomer dashed in and out in a bright succession of tight slacks and V-necked blouses, occasionally pausing to effulge a visitor with her smile, occasionally cutting out of the creepy joint in her baby-blue Ferrari...
Norway's Olav V...