Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help South Vietnamese preserve free choice-and no more. "Now we're saying we're going to fight there so that we don't have to fight in Thailand, so that we don't have to fight on the West Coast of the U.S., so that they [the Communists] won't move , across the Rockies...
...strong Greek tie to the island, announced that it had reached agreement with Turkey without waiting for Makarios to make up his mind. In Ankara, the government of Premier Siileyman Demirel became impatient at the delay. The Turks, whose navy maneuvered earlier in the week off the Cyprus coast, kept their armed forces in a high state of preparedness, ready to invade Cyprus and strike across the Thracian plain at Greece...
...reversing its own antimerger order of 20 months ago, approved the creation of the Great Northern Pacific & Burlington Lines, Inc. The new road fuses the present Great Northern, the Northern Pacific and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy along with smaller subsidiaries, including the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway and the Pacific Coast Railroad. With 24,600 miles of track stretching across more than a quarter of the nation, the G.N.P. & B. will be the U.S.'s longest railroad. Consolidated revenues of $850 million a year will rank it right behind the Pennsylvania and the Southern Pacific. With annual savings from combined...
Depending on the outcome of any legal action, the new railroad is prepared to begin merged operations almost immediately. The first and biggest step will be to inaugurate straight-through freight service from Chicago to the West Coast, with savings in time and money for both the railroad and its shippers. After that will come capital outlays for an electronic freight yard in Minneapolis and expanded freight facilities in Spokane and Seattle. As projected, the management lineup-which could stand some streamlining-would have Great Northern President John M. Budd as chairman and chief executive of the new company, Burlington...
Humhprey Doermann, a member of the admissions committee and former admissions director, explains that the docket system avoids the possibility of admitting so many, say, from the West Coast--which the committee considers first--that there will be no room left in the class when the committee gets further east, in which case the members might get progressively stricter. This could, of course, also be avoided by not classifying the students geographically at all. But that, officials say, would be administractively inconvenient. The advocate system depends on having applicants grouped by area so the advocate can visit their schools...