Word: falling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...with Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow. Since then, the two have seesawed back and forth, a few points apart. Gallup's latest poll showed Kennedy leading 52 to 48 in surveys conducted just after the blowup of President Eisenhower's trip to Japan. Said Gallup: "The outcome next fall may well be decided not so much by the campaigns as it will by changes in the world situation...
...speeches, beginning with a July 26 address at the G.O.P. Convention, in which he will renew his fight for fiscal responsibility. Congress, reconvening after the conventions, can expect a sharply worded message warning against lavish spending. And the President intends to participate fully in the presidential campaign this fall...
Much as he wanted to agree, Jack decided at week's end to stay suspended, at least temporarily. District Attorney Frank Hogan, frankly dismayed at the jury's destruction of the solidly built case, said another trial could not be scheduled until the fall, then cheerfully tossed the decision on what to do with Jack to Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, the only official with power to remove a borough president...
Both the U.S. and West Germany sharply protested Austria's refusal to "dissociate" itself from the tirades. But Khrushchev could not be stopped. At a final press conference, he warned that if the West German Bundestag held its annual symbolic meeting in Berlin this fall as planned, he might seize the occasion to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany. Chortled Nikita: "This would mean that all members of the Parliament would have to ask for visas from the East German government to get back home...
...permitted to study fulltime beyond the eighth grade, the ten-year school system is being lengthened to eleven years with the bulk of the gain in vocational training (1,454 hours), science and math (a total of 395 more hours). As for humanities, says Expert DeWitt, "the ax will fall." There is little room for humanities in managing an industrial state...