Word: setting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...will be pleased with the U.S. decision to retain its troop strength on the Continent-at least for the present-since East bloc forces already enjoy a 2-to-l advantage in men, tanks and planes in Europe. As NATO Secretary-General Manlio Brosio warned: "The Soviet Union has set itself two aims and two programs: a minimum program, which is the ratification of the status quo in Europe; a maximum program, which would be the establishment of a pan-European security system that would exclude North American countries from Europe...
There is no mistaking the distinctive soft blue glow all over South Viet Nam these days. Puzzled Vietnamese peasants saw their first broadcasts on 2,500 sets donated by the U.S. and set up outdoors on stilts in hamlets and towns in and around Saigon. Now there are upwards of 350,000 sets, or one for every 50 Vietnamese. THVN-for Truyen Hinh (Transmission of Pictures) Viet Nam-has five stations. Broadcasting about six hours a day, mostly in the evening, they can reach 80% of South Viet Nam's 17 million people...
Most Western women would think twice about taking a three-month-old baby into the African bush for an extended stay. But that is precisely what British Zoologist Jane van Lawick-Goodall did in 1967 when she set out on a three-year expedition to Tanzania with her husband and her infant son Hugo (nicknamed "Grub"). Back in London with her family, she reports that she looked to the behavior of chimpanzees for guidance in raising Grub...
Nicholson's self-indulgences these days are pretty much under control. While on the set in Canada, he says, "we all took a vow to stay off pot. I'm the only one who's stuck to it. I'd been smoking it every day for 15 years and I'd been wondering if it was habit-forming. Well, it's not." Nowadays, the only habit he has to worry about is success...
Died. Jacob Blaustein, 78, founder of the American Oil Co. and former president of the American Jewish Committee; in Baltimore. With his father, Blaustein set up the first drive-in gas station in 1915, devised the first pump with a meter that read in dollars and cents, and introduced the first antiknock fuel (it powered Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis to Europe in 1927). As a Jewish activist, Blaustein played a major role in persuading David Ben-Gurion to accept the U.N. plan to partition Palestine in 1948, and in negotiations with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...