Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Approved, by a 333-to-5 House vote, a $1.2 billion military pay boost, which the President quickly and "with great pleasure" signed into law (see box). Effective as of Oct. 1, the raise is the first for servicemen since 1958, gives its highest-percentage increases to younger officers and noncoms as incentives to keep them in uniform. For those who are risking their lives in such cold war hot spots as Viet Nam but are technically ineligible for combat pay, there will be an added $55 a month in "hostile fire" pay. No sooner had Congress acted than Defense...
During the short mating season, a male beetle spends most of its time scuttling through the herbage searching out nubile females. When he finds one, he races in front of her, blocks her way and offers his tuft of hair as if it were a box of candy. The female almost al ways accepts the gift, leaning on the male while she nibbles the baited hairs...
...forceful, two-story post-and-beam structure, with walls of diagonal redwood siding, brings space and plastic interest to what would otherwise be that modern cliche, the box house. The J. H. Pomeroy Co. is selling the house at its Tahoe Keys development at Lake Tahoe, Calif., for approximately $45,000 with...
...other Ivy League schools are equally skeptical, their policies could easily "set a match to the tinder box" of Superintendent Calvin Gross's recent proposal to initiate gradeless high schools in New York City, Glimp said...
...help on the offense and Amherst will need a new strategy. Sophomore Hugh Polk and center forward Cormac O'Malley are good enough to keep the Jeffs from using gang tactics against Ohiri, who has been moved to inside right. In his new position, Ohiri will be harder to box in and less vulnerable to Amherst's magic circle of defensemen...