Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...September, the Civil Aeronauties Board changed the formula for determining air fares to a system based on rate per miles travelled, which went into effect October 1. The rate per mile goes down as the number of miles covered rises. Therefore, under the new system, it costs two dollars less than under the previous system to fly from Boston to San Francisco, but five dollars more to fly from Boston to Washington...
...remained in power under Ludwig Erhard as Chancellor. It -was Brandt's second straight defeat, and once again his party had failed to break through the 40% barrier. Discouraged, Brandt went into a personal decline, marked by long periods of introspection. Observers revived his old nickname, "Weinbrand Willy," because of his liking for brandy. During this period he collected a series of essays under the title Draussen (Outside). He had no idea how close he was to the inside...
After winning his law degree, Palme went to work as Erlander's secretary and speechwriter. He also married Lisbeth Beck-Friis, a child psychologist and leading feminist who shares his upper-class background (she renounced her title of baroness).. Elected to the Riksdag in 1956, he proved brilliant, energetic and devastating in parliamentary debate. Palme began to soar politically, won Cabinet rank in 1963, became Minister of Communications in 1965, and two years later took the education portfolio. He has long since become Swedish television's favorite Cabinet personality. He even played a role-strictly political...
Thus buoyed, Wilson went on to speak confidently on what is likely to become a hotly contested issue of the campaign -British entry into Europe's six-nation Common Market. "If they, the Six, are ready for negotiations to begin, we are ready," he said. "We no longer face the challenge of Europe cap in hand...
...under way in Moscow-though analysts were quick to point out that these talks have been held annually, even in the worst periods of Sino-Soviet tension. There were other signs as well. Two hundred thousand copies of a stinging anti-Mao broadside were withdrawn a day after they went on sale in Moscow; a check of bookstores in the capital indicated that all other anti-China books had also been quietly removed. A Yugoslav press report, originating in Moscow, said that both Soviet and Chinese troops were withdrawing from forward positions along their common Far East border...