Word: blasted
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...Bigger Fight. The great chicken war is only the opening blast in a larger crisis in trade relations between the U.S. and the Common Market. The U.S. sells 10% of its farm produce abroad, and one-third of that total-or $1.1 billion worth -usually goes to Common Market nations. The Common Market has made no secret that it is moving toward broadly higher agricultural tariffs to protect small, inefficient European farmers. Last week a panel of U.S. economists reported to Congress that U.S. farm exports to Europe may shrink as much as 30% by 1970. Heaviest losses are expected...
Tonight's "semi-closed" dances include Winthrop's blast, at which Russ Keane and his Five Boys will provide the dancing music. Three Mr. Magoo cartoons and two W. C. Fields comedies will be shown in the Junior Common Room. Halftime intermission will feature singing by the Harvard Squares. This dance begins at 8 p.m.; cost...
...scores came on less exciting plays, one on a penalty shot that the goalie missed and the other on a sharp blast by Yalie captain Joe Upton. But the Eli defense was tight enough to make the game exciting and to gain the final tie score...
...miles of rail shoved by five Nike-Hercules missile engines (see diagram). After traveling along the track for half a mile, the sled is moving at more than 1,000 m.p.h. and its rockets are cut off. Split seconds later, a pair of iss-mm. howitzers beside the track blast away at the decelerating sled. Their shells, moving at 1,088 m.p.h., quickly catch up with the target, slam into it, and are stopped with scarcely a scratch by a bale of synthetic rubber. Then the sled itself splashes to a stop in a trough of water...
Every year, the small auto finance companies that make up the American Finance Conference kick off their annual convention with a blast against their special foe: giant General Motors Acceptance Corp., the sales finance subsidiary of General Motors. They kicked again last week in Washington, and with new fury. Unless G.M.A.C. is quickly curbed, complained Richard Meier, chair man of the A.F.C. executive committee, there may soon be no "independents" left. In the past five years, says Meier, the number of independent auto finance companies has shrunk from...