Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gets its head up. Top Republicans talk publicly of picking up 40 House seats next year; they would happily settle for 20, which would bring the Democrats down to a still overwhelming majority of 275 to 160. Only by a turnover that surpasses imagination could the G.O.P. gain a bare majority of the Senate; Republicans would have to beat all 19 Democratic Senators up for re-election next year while holding the 14 Republican seats that will be risked. In their field of greatest strength, the governorships, the Republicans conceivably could add half a dozen or so to their present...
...books on etiquette, and-advertised in neon-a socialist deodorant. Still, a mass-consumption society is a long way off. For one thing, four-fifths of the country's production remains in industrial goods; for another, the average wage of $ 151 a month does not go much beyond bare necessities. The East German worker must skimp to buy coffee at $9 a lb., a TV set at $500, or the cheapest 26 h.p. car at $2,000. Last year 62,698 cars were made for a country of 17 million people; naturally, the waiting lists are long...
...costs, we are to put national interests first, and, hopefully and incidentally, moral interests as well. Do you not, by such conclusions regarding the "moral purpose" of limited war, lay bare the hypocrisy by which we justify our action in time of war? The depth of the evil about us is not a call to retribution but to greatness. Are we not to be called atheists when we believe and act upon the belief that there are gulfs between "right" men and "wrong" men so great that no bridge can be thrown across them? Must we accept...
They were kept for months in the total blackness of a dank cell in a Laotian mountain prison, their lacerated bare legs locked each night in crude wooden stocks, helpless to do anything more than curse when rats ran across their bodies, even more helpless to care for themselves when dysentery and bladder infections racked their bodies. Sanity hung by such threads as U.S. Special Forces Orville Roger Ballenger's calm recital each night of the 23rd Psalm, the creation of a deck of playing cards with tissue paper smuggled past the guards. Above all, they were sustained...
Ringing London. Aside from automation, the Evening Post of Reading boasts other distinctions. It is one of a bare handful of provincial evening papers to be started in Britain in the last three decades. Moreover, it is published in a town that is only 36 miles from London, where there are twelve big dailies. Competitors have their doubts that the experiment will succeed. But Lord Thomson of Fleet has planned with care, and he is confident enough to predict that he will some day be publishing eight new suburban dailies in towns ringing London...