Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chairman of Defiance Industries and president of B.S.F., a $22.5 million minor empire ranging from banking to automobile tape players, which he had shared with Partners Victor Muscat and Edward Krock. Huffines gave "personal reasons" for breaking up the threesome, who were called the Three Muscateers, sold off the bulk of his holdings to his partners, with whom he had dealt mostly by telephone since the triumvirate was formed eight years ago. He will now operate on his own from his 13,000-acre plantation at Yemassee...
...whined low over the presidential palace, peppering it with rockets. Tanks took up positions at the Baghdad radio station. For the second time in ten months, former Premier Aref Abdel Razzak, 42, was up to his old tricks, launching a coup in the name of Nasser-style socialism. The bulk of the army rallied to the side of the government, quashing the uprising. The difference was that last week President Abdel Rahman Aref decided to take no more chances with Razzak. He was captured, and "legal action" was promptly taken. Was that a polite term for execution...
Keeping Track. The bulk wine arrives from southern France in barges or 40-tank-car trains, rests eight days in 1,000,000-liter tanks to let the sediment settle, then streams through stainless-steel mains to sterilized, electronically inspected bottles. They are automatically topped (with plastic and metal, not cork), stamped with labels, dropped twelve at a time into cases and conveyed to a mechanical loading dock. There a monitor at a control board punches out orders that fill up waiting trucks at the rate of a truck a minute-fast enough so that some drivers do not bother...
...bulk of financing for the other mines came from the U.S. and Canada-not from Europe...
While many TIME bureaus thus contributed to the story written by Jason McManus and edited by Edward Hughes, the bulk of the reporting task fell naturally to our growing Saigon staff. As the war has escalated so has our personnel count in South Viet Nam. Only a little more than two years ago, the TIME representation there consisted of a single resident nonstaff reporter, aided on frequent occasions by correspondents going in from Hong Kong and Washington. The U.S. military presence then totaled about 16,000. Today, with 335,000 U.S. military on the scene, the TIME-LIFE team includes...