Word: beef
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troubles cropped up in the strongest of U.S. alliances. Convinced that non-nuclear war is now possible in Europe, U.S. strategists want to beef up NATO's strength in conventional weapons. For the President the new doctrine meant long hours of convincing West Germany's change-wary Konrad Adenauer (see Foreign Relations) that the U.S. resolve to defend Berlin and Europe has not weakened. Far more challenging would be Kennedy's Paris confrontation next month with France's Charles de Gaulle, who has called for drastic changes in NATO. Kennedy may promise De Gaulle a stronger...
...Thais, Pakistanis and Filipinos into the fighting sectors while U.S. troops occupied the Mekong River valley towns from Savannakhet through Paksane and Vientiane, up to Luangprabang; this would provide strong defense for the towns while freeing 12,000 Laotian soldiers for action. Meanwhile. U.S. guerrillas would move in and beef up training of the native groups...
...happily assumed that Hammarskjold was planning to replace him. But last week Hammarskjold ordered Dayal back to the Congo. The Secretary-General could scarcely repudiate his Senior Indian aide at the very moment that India, reversing its previous policy, had just sent an entire 4,700-man brigade to beef up the U.N.'s dwindling Congo forces...
...begun to sell high-profit, boil-in-the-pack frozen meals, and soon will begin limited marketing of "freeze-dried" dehydrated meats that need no refrigeration. Though gourmets may disagree. Prince says that he has licked the taste problem that has been holding back freeze-dried foods : "Our beef stew tastes like it just came out of Mother's kitchen...
...aristocratic three-year-old whose bouffant hairdo is kept in place by a strategically located rubber band. At her kennel in Mahopac, N.Y., Sister is kept saturated in baby oil and hooded in Pliofilm. Her life is sunless and funless. Her diet features wheat germ and chopped beef, her home is carefully air-conditioned, and she gets ultraviolet light treatments. But sunshine? Never. Twice a day Sister exercises in an "outdoor" run -shingle-roofed, walled with Plexiglas and floored with specially selected gravel. Only when she is being prepared for show is Sister permitted the luxury of a bath...