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The Glory and the Dream was listed as a New York Times bestseller in 1975. [4] In The Scotsman, Michael Aitken called it "a collossal piece of nostalgia that brings to mind G.K. Chesterton's insight that the real American is all right: it is the ideal American who is all wrong." [5] The book was translated into Chinese by Dong Leshan. [citation ...
To raise the living standards of those dependent on national insurance benefits, the government index-linked short-term benefits to the rate of inflation, while pensions and long-term benefits were tied to increases in prices or earnings, whichever was higher. [4] In 1975, a State Earnings Related Pension Scheme (SERPS) was introduced. A new ...
Whitlam instantly dismissed ASIS Director-General Bill Robertson in 1975 after discovering ASIS, along with the CIA, [40] had assisted the Timorese Democratic Union in an attempted coup against the Portuguese administration in Timor-Leste, without informing Whitlam's government. [36] In the second half of 1975, Whitlam learned of rumours that ...
Full Faith and Credit: The Great S & L Debacle and Other Washington Sagas (2000; ISBN 1-893122-49-2), by L. William Seidman, FDIC/RTC chairman under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War (1996/2007; ISBN 978-0684810812 ) by Robert Gates ...
Famine 1975! America's Decision: Who Will Survive? is a best-selling [1] 1967 book by William and Paul Paddock. The brothers describe the rapidly growing population of the world, and a situation in which they believe it would be impossible to feed the entire global population within the short-term future.
Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston is a utopian novel by Ernest Callenbach, published in 1975.The society described in the book is one of the first ecological utopias and was influential on the counterculture and the green movement in the 1970s and thereafter.
William Orville Douglas (October 16, 1898 – January 19, 1980) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 to 1975. Douglas was known for his strong progressive and civil libertarian views and is often cited as the U.S. Supreme Court 's most liberal justice ever. [ 2 ]
Colby, William (1975). Intelligence and the press: Address to the Associated Press annual meeting by William E. Colby on Monday, 7 April 1975. CIA. Colby, William (1975). Foreign intelligence for America: Address to the Commonwealth Club of California by William E. Colby on Wednesday, 7 May 1975 in San Francisco, California. CIA (1975).