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Word: wrecking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS. Four diverting playlets about love, sex and marriage. While not overly witty or wise, they foam with gentle laughter. Richard Castellano is superbly sad and funny as a long-wed father contemplating the wreck of his son's marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 11, 1968 | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Hawaii Five-O. The old Hawaiian Eye private-detective series of a few seasons back is reborn with a new title and a new star (Jack Lord). In the two-hour opening installment, our gumshoe uncovers an underworld plot to wreck the U.S. intelligence system in the Pacific. Next week an hour-long episode picks up the series in another time slot. Premiere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 20, 1968 | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

...nomination. He is more worried about the other flank. To prevent wholesale defections of Republicans and disgruntled Democrats to Wallace, he has, consequently, adopted a "yes, but" attitude. He is for the non-proliferation treaty, but against ratification just now?a position that could, in the end, wreck the treaty's chances for passage. He approves of the Supreme Court's 1954 school-desegregation decision but opposes stringent federal dictation to local school authorities to make integration work. He acknowledges repeatedly that civil order cannot be achieved without social justice but last week called Humphrey "naive" about crime. "Doubling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: LURCHING OFF TO A SHAKY START | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

...drives are in progress in ten more. Louisiana Governor John McKeithen, a staunch Humphreyite, admits that Wallace is the present odds-on favorite in that state. The Alabamian should carry Mississippi as well as his home state, and elsewhere in the South he may draw off enough votes to wreck Nixon's chance of carrying Dixie. In any state, north or south, where the balance is close, George Wallace can tip the scales to the party that loses fewer supporters to his cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Third Party: George Less Risible | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

...political crisis, the free-market price of the metal rose to a new high of $42.60 per oz. in London last week. That brought out enough sellers to push the price back down to $41.75 at week's end. The drop eased concern that the speculators might wreck the two-tier system of gold prices that has unhitched the gold market from the $35-per-oz. gold price for monetary reserves. Still, the system's durability depends chiefly on how fast the U.S. regains control over its inflation and persistent balance of payments deficit. As last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: At New Peaks | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

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