Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ikeya-Seki comet appeared on Indonesia's eastern horizon early one morning last October. From the base of the volcano Agung, navel of creation and home of the Great Gods, the mystic prophets of the island of Bali watched it streak through the sky for ten days and were alarmed. It was an omen, they warned, of much death and change of government in the land...
...second area involves mainly involuntary intrusions caused by the immense overcrowding and the ever-growing interdependence of civilization. The problem raised is psychological and social: How can life be conducted so that the individual will have a secure base of personal peace and dignity amid the vortex of modern existence...
Scarce and costly credit has curbed not only housebuilding, but also corporate expansion, the principal base of the long economic advance. Construction starts of new factories slipped by $500 million, or 61% , in the latest count, which covers the first quarter of the year. Between January and March the gross national product rose by a worrisome $17 billion, which would work out to 91% a year; during the second quarter, it climbed by a less inflationary $10 billion, or 5.5% a year. Ackley and other White House economists expect the economy to expand at only about half that rate...
...Manuel Yellen, who became chairman of the company and chief executive officer. In his $50,000-a-year job with Royal Crown, Cramer will be able to return to the foreign market he understands so well, will try to broaden overseas sales from R.C.'s present small base of 22 countries, bring the growing company into closer competition with bigger Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola...
...same time Adams has tactical advantages over Hughes. There was no war in 1962; consequently it was harder to convince voters of the importance of the peace issue. Hughes, moreover, had no base from which to build his campaign. Adams has an outfit called Mass Pax, or Political Action for Peace, the outgrowth of the Hughes organization. Unlike Hughes, Adams is running as a Democrat, and his campaign is directed toward the September 13 Democratic Primary when he will oppose Mayor John Collins and former Governor Endicott Peabody. Hughes, an independent, faced stiffer November opposition in the form of Edward...