Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cool. India's attack followed weeks of jingoistic dissemblance by Nehru in New Delhi's Lok Sabha (Lower House). Prodded by Defense Minister V. K. Krishna Menon and faced with elections in February (see box), Nehru aimed a barrage of inflated and inflammatory charges at the Portuguese. He claimed that Portuguese naval vessels had attacked an Indian fishing boat and an Indian merchant ship, and that well-armed Portuguese troops were "massing menacingly" along the 180-mile Indo-Goan border. Portugal's colonial authorities, Nehru said, were brutally oppressing the Goan people, most of whom were Hindus...
...quintessence of automation is the computer, the whirring electronic box that can calculate, memorize, talk back, and-by designing future generations of computers-almost reproduce itself. The first business computers were delivered late in 1954. After several years of expensive trial and embarrassing error, of disappointments and ultimate breakthroughs, the computer in 1961 passed through the awkward stage and got down to serious work. This year, for the first time, sales and rentals of computers topped $1 billion, and the number of computers in the U.S., ranging from giant brains down to small, desktop convenience models, doubled...
...Executive Coloring Book and a box of crayons will provide many a happy hour to growing vice presidents, who will feel right at home with "THIS is MY TELEPHONE. It has five buttons. Count them...
...Judy Garland Story: The Star Years (M-G-M). For dedicated Garland fans this album is indispensable-a collection of songs from the sound tracks of a half-dozen corny movie musicals that Judy belted to box-office glory in the late 1940s. For fans who have been mourning the lost lithe talent of their youth, it is all here-in such memories as Who? from Till the Clouds Roll By and Better Luck Next Time from Easter Parade...
...Ministry of Information forbade exhibition abroad. In the opinion of the government, which at that time was strenuously laundering the national reputation, France was already far too well known for its feelthy peectures. But three months ago, Vadim won a reversal of the restriction. Liaisons, which had busted French box-office records, was sold for $350,000 to a U.S. distributor...