Word: belt
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...save money. Where top Pentagon officials formerly had to wade through as many as eleven separate-and often conflicting-intelligence reports from the services daily, they now get a single, four-page summary from the unified Defense Intelligence Agency. Millions of dollars have been saved on items ranging from belt buckles to bloomers by the creation of a single Defense Supply Agency. Instead of the charming, old-fashioned practice of trying to cut up the defense budget pie more or less equally among the services, McNamara now budgets by function, cutting across service lines to provide funds for Strategic Retaliatory...
...white-Negro relationships have long been considered among the best in the South. But the city's 200,960 Negroes (39.9% of the population) are hard pressed for living room. They live on 24.6% of the total land zoned for residential purposes, are largely confined to a black belt running northwest to southeast through the heart of the city. In this belt, one of the best districts is Collier Heights, in northwest Atlanta. The main trouble with Collier Heights is that it is tantalizingly close to a white neighborhood called Cascade Heights, where homes range from...
...world, but they are not tight enough to hold back a thriving network of Russian dealers in contraband currency that stretches from Peking to Paris and points beyond. Last week a Kazakhstan factory owner went on trial in Alma Ata after he was nabbed wearing a money belt crammed not only with rubles but also with French francs and U.S. dollars. In his home were three ounces of pearls, 2,700 antelope horns, which the Chinese prize for their supposed medicinal qualities, and 22 Ibs. of gold, which he planned to export to accomplices in Communist China. Using a mine...
...belt-tightening measure intended to save money for national defense, India last week decreed an end to the import of foreign liquor. After existing stocks of Scotch and brandy are used up, Indian drinkers will have to depend on such local specialties as palm wine, rose petal liquor and a brew of saffron musk...
With this success under his belt, modest Marshall Field, 46, could not resist a modest huzzah. He wished the ChandlerGraham axis all the best, he said. But then he added, with the confidence of a gentle man who has sensed the exhilarating aroma of power: "I would hope that at some future time they would team up with...