Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). A basketball exhibition with the Harlem Magicians and Hartford Explorers in Baltimore's Civic Arena, plus the 1967 Women's International Skiing Championship at Oberstaufen, Germany...
...over the past two years. British industry has just rented a "brain train" to tour university cities and woo reluctant engineering and science graduates. There is serious talk about untangling Europe's thicket of loosely drawn patent laws and providing new incentives for formation of Europe-wide companies. Prime Minister Wilson recently suggested the creation of a European Technological Community to pool the products of its science and laboratories. But Europe's postwar record at this type of cooperation is dismal. Only CERN, the atomic-research laboratory at Geneva, shows much accomplishment...
Certainty in Congress. Castello Branco has drawn up a new constitution that will give the President wide powers of decree (TIME, Dec. 16), announced a new press bill that provides stiff fines and up to four years in prison for magazine and newspaper editors who print anything "prejudicial to national security." He is drafting a new law that will give the President sweeping powers to deal with "security" cases. Last week he decreed a new business tax that slaps a 5% levy on shareholder profits. Since the government's ARENA party holds a 304-seat majority in Congress (compared...
Chiang Kai-shek limped to bed with glee this week anticipating his happiest dreams in years. The reported brawls between rival Communist faction sin Nanking and Shanghai probably spread like wide-fire under those old eye-lids and there he was, standing tall, as his Navy crossed the Taiwan Straits and saved the strife-weary people of the mainland...
...cultural Revolution is an nation-wide cram session in Maoist thought that has been largely an urban phenomenon for the first few months of its active life. According to the rules, everyone takes as much time off as possible to read and discuss Mao's writings, and all are encouraged to point our mistakes committed by their elders and leaders...