Word: long
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bill worked out by a Senate-House conference in a series of exhausting 16-hour sessions last week provides plenty of tax relief but relatively little in the way of long-term reforms. What started out as an effort to close tax loopholes turned into a tax-cutting binge designed to win friends for Congress in an election year...
THIS outraged statement notwithstanding, Newark's business leaders had little reason to be shocked by last week's indictments. Crime and corruption have long been blatantly evident in what may well be the Mafia capital of the U.S. After the city's bloody 1967 race riot, for example, a special Governor's commission laid much of the blame to "a widespread belief that Newark's government is corrupt...
...After a long period of self-imposed isolation, Peking has apparently decided to recommence at least a measure of diplomatic contact with the West. As a result of the fashion-show conversations, Stoessel was invited to the Chinese embassy for a meeting with Chargé d'Affaires Lei Yang. The two men talked and sipped tea for more than an hour. Though the content of their discussion remains secret, President Nixon's top foreign policy advisers are convinced that Peking may well be on the verge of resuming formal talks with...
Folk Hero. Meanwhile, Torrijos dashed back to Panama-after a fashion. After a long, hopscotch flight back from Mexico in a small plane, Torrijos finally landed by the light of torches at a remote airstrip near David, 300 miles west of Panama City. Then came a triumphant, ten-hour ride into the capital in a fleet of rattletrap buses whose entourage of private cars and cheering campesinos grew at every hamlet...
...Beamon breaks the world long-jump record by almost two feet with a leap...