Word: problems
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...later lowered his sights to a minimum $135-a-month pension, to be paid for by taxing personal incomes.) The plan promised all things to all men of all ages: by forcing the retirement of oldsters, it would create new openings for younger men and thus solve the unemployment problem; and by requiring every pensioner to spend all of his $200 every month, it would keep money in constant circulation...
...adequate: the U.S. maintained direct, constant contact with Pioneer V until the 70,000 m.p.h. probe was 22.5 million miles from earth. And both Russia and the U.S. have the technological capability to guide a rocket on an interplanetary mission. Says Martin's Demoret: "Guidance is an engineering problem, and we don't think it's a great one at all. We already can do the job. Whether we go to the moon, to Mars or to Venus, we'll be able to guide space vehicles accurately enough...
...they are sold out of The Long Season (total national sales: 10,000, enough to make the New York Herald Tribune's bestseller list). Then he scoops up armfuls of volumes ranging from Moss Hart to William James and strolls back to his hotel to forget about the problem of pitching to the likes of Willie Mays. "There's nothing like a book," he says, "to keep your mind from thinking...
Africans may take comfort in the fact that both U.S. presidential candidates have now said as much in their own ways. The Kennedy Foundation is footing the air fares for those East Africans. For his part, Richard Nixon last week called Afro-Asian education "our most critical long-range problem." Said he: "There is no area where the national interest can be served better...
...while on vacation; so were the housewives, the salesmen, the lawyers he met sunbathing. They, like himself, were "vitally interested in the bigger issues of our times"; instead of light and airy conversations about adult westerns or bridge scores, he found people discussing foreign trade, economic growth, the farm problem and national purpose...