Word: cantons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...army, backed by 15 million reservists, police and militiamen, is the largest ground force in the world. Supported by four artillery and armored divisions (the latter mostly equipped with Russian T-34 tanks), the forces are presently placed in Manchuria, around Peking, along the coast between Shanghai and Canton, in South China, and in the southwest opposite India. Since early this year, they have been undergoing intensified small-unit training. Though their military equipment is largely World War II vintage and their supply lines would be vulnerable to modern air power, the Chinese could obviously overrun any of their neighbors...
...have a population as high as 100,000. A.E.P. has prospered mainly because it has invested wisely in new technology, and thus has been able to drop its rates to one-sixth below the national average for private utilities. This week, in a fallout-proof red brick building at Canton, Ohio, the company will begin operating a remarkable system that will open the way to still lower costs. Minute by minute, three computers will monitor both power production and power demand at 14 of A.E.P.'s 20 plants. When extra power is needed in an area, the computers will...
...resorts are wooing German nudists, and Czechoslovakia attracts West Germans and East Germans, who hold surreptitious reunions there. Yugoslavia ("Europe in Miniature") spent $50 million last year on roads and hotels, anticipates a $60 million return this year. Even Red China is falling into step. The city of Canton was repainted for this spring's trade fair, and guest houses have been equipped with air conditioning and Western menus-but Americans are still unwelcome...
...also elected W. Frank White '66, of Winthrop House and Canton, Miss., to its Board of Directors; Charles W. Filson '66, of Adams House and Springfield, Ill., treasurer; and M. Daniel Zeddies '67, of Pennypacker Hall and St. Paul Minn., clerk...
...have been calling and dropping by all week to beg forgiveness ... A Mr. B-- got up and begged in front of last week's mass meeting. He took up nearly an hour with the heart-rending story of his long-time underground friendship for the good colored people of Canton. The committee has decided to keep the squeeze on all of them for a while--to impress them with the latent power of the Negro community ... All of their efforts at retaliation so far have been clumsy and amateurish, but the state legislature has just passed a bill making...