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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attired. They had raised glasses in a toast to their Queen, but nodded approvingly when he warned that they might soon be leaving her realm. Now they listened silently as Ian Smith, in the flat, nasal accent of the settler, read from the eve-of battle speech of Henry V: "That he which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart. He today that sheds his blood with me, shall be my brother, and gentlemen in England, now abed, shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here." When he finished, the Salisbury Municipal Orchestra played God Save...
...move toward withdrawal in Vietnam does not make him happy that the Viet Cong will prevail, as it apparently does Mr. Booth and certainly Mr. Maher, Mr. Howe was most critical of any equation of American politics with the lack of basic political freedom in totalitarian countries. Sanford V. Levinson Tutor, Dunster House
...John V. Lindsay, the Republican Liberal candidate, was more cautious; he would only predict a close outcome. But sources high in the Lindsay camp were considerably more optimistic. In an interview with the CRIMSON, a top Lindsay side unhesitatingly predicted victory...
Such changes have moved the rejuvenated paper out of a dead heat with the rival Herald-Traveler only two years ago into a widening 58,000 circulation lead (374,000 v. 316,000). Says Winship: "I'm trying to make the paper damn courageous and really not afraid of sacred cows...
Nearly every segment of the nation's business shared in the advance, thanks chiefly to a larger-than-expected third-quarter growth in the total output of U.S. goods and services ($11 billion v. an anticipated $9.5 billion). Remarkably, this gain was made without any substantial impetus from the Viet Nam war; military spending now equals only 8.6% of the gross national product, 1% less than three years...