Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flights. Talks on an outer-space treaty may be nearing completion. The two governments have even reopened the prickly question of replacing inadequate embassies in each other's capitals: the U.S. has tentatively offered a 13-acre plot in Northwest Washington, while the Russians have tentatively offered a central location in Moscow...
...turned quickly to the Communist antidemocratic guerrilla warfare that their brothers in China and Indo-China were fostering. By the late 1940s, the Huk menace was massive: it claimed 14,000 fighting men under arms, and controlled by terror and taxation some 4,000,000 Filipino peasants, mainly in central Luzon. President Roxas, who died in office of a heart attack, was succeeded by Elpidio Quirino, a well-meaning but weak lawyer who was unable to come to grips with either government corruption or the Huks...
...States has been intensified over the past two years. Operation Camelot, a study of the causes of insurgency in underdeveloped nations, was cancelled by President Johnson after disclosure that the project was being financed by the Army provoked a political tempest in Chile. Another furor greeted reports that the Central Intelligence Agency was involved with a Michigan State University technical assistance program in South Vietnam...
...this question, Ford indicated, that a split within the Faculty might develop. The central issue would be whether Harvard has the "right" to go on record against classrankings, leaving the draft test--which "is certain to make Harvard students look very good"--as the only criterion for deferment...
...COMMUTER'S AID. Illinois Central Railroad is testing a Litton computer that handles commuter ticketing. After a clerk punches in the passenger's monthly schedule, the machine calculates the price and issues a magnetic card. On each trip, the commuter slips the card into a turnstile receiver that automatically subtracts one ride from the total and flashes the number of rides remaining, then opens the gate. In a few years, clerks will be eliminated; the commuter will punch his own order on a console and pay the machine...