Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...task, for the Philippine Republic is a tough, bustling, colorful and potentially great nation. It consists of some 7,000 islands-a few smoking volcanoes, many somnolent with heat and sleeping sickness. Its 32 million citizens range from headhunters in northern Luzon to transvestite Manila bini boys, but the bulk of them are hungry, hard-scrabbling peasants who live in the barrios of the towns and cities. Some scavenge metal from the firing ranges of U.S. bases; others cap bottles of San Miguel beer in the big stone brewery near Manila Harbor. Beneath the stately palms of Roxas Boulevard...
Columbia is exceptionally strong in all three weapons, but the foil team is still a standout. Senior Steve Weinstein, amazingly quick on attack despite his bulk, is a second-team all-American, Sophomore Jeff Kestler, former New York public school champion won the New York Metropolitan Invitational this year. Third man is Bruno Santonocito, second in last year's Eastern foil competition...
Koti's cutting edge would at least reduce the bulk of bank notes Indonesians have had to lug around with them. But far more was needed to revamp the entire price-wage structure and provide incentives to restore production to decaying plantations and mines. Though the peasantry survives happily enough on bananas, breadfruit and barter, few city dwellers today can make ends meet without handouts of rice, free housing and cash from their employers...
...Rhodesian border. Normally, the nation has only a six-week reserve, but there are signs that Ian Smith has been quietly stockpiling a six-month supply. This would not be too hard, for oil supplies only 27% of Rhodesia's energy, primarily for autos and airplanes, with the bulk of its factories, utilities and its trains still coal-powered...
...merger should bring big benefits to both companies. I. T. & T. gets the bulk of its income from its activities as a major world supplier of telephone and electronic equipment and services and as a big producer in Europe of TV sets, refrigerators and record players. The new combine would end that heavy dependence on overseas income. ABC would become an "autonomous" subsidiary headed by President Leonard H. Goldenson, 60, would get from the merger the needed financial resources with which to build stronger programs...