Word: cons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stick-Up. Brightly decorated vinyl-plastic "fabric" which sticks to a variety of surfaces (e.g., kitchen walls and book covers) was brought out by Manhattan's Cohn-Hall-Marx Co. "Con-Tact," which can be wiped clean with soap, comes with a backing that is peeled off, leaving an adhesive surface. Price...
...shores. The Federal Government claims everything beyond the state limits (three miles for Louisiana, ioj for Texas), and Mexico, presumably will claim the oil-rich undersea lands on its side of the Gulf. But there is no authority for such an interpretation of international law, which has always con sidered that the high seas belong to all nations in common. As far as precedent goes, there is nothing to prevent the Brit ish, for instance, from building an oil navy on the Clyde and sailing it down to drill for oil just outside Louisiana's three-mile limit...
Tecon (pronounced tay-con, because the company's motto is "We take on anything") is headed by Clint Murchison Jr., 30-year-old son of the multimillionaire Texas wheeler-dealer (TIME, May 24). Eager for the worldwide attention that the job will create, up-and-coming Tecon agreed to move soft shale from the hill at $1.06 a cu. yd., rock at $1.46, and to finish the job in 15 months. Nobody knew exactly how much shale and how much rock would have to be removed to make the canal safe, but official estimates ran as high...
...only things they don't get are travel allowances for dependents and shipment of household goods," he con- tinued. "Also they're not entitled to veterans' benefits...
...work done in a particular field. For instance, Taylor's American Studies is based around twelve problems, such as "The New Deal: Revolution of Evolution?" or "National Health Insurance." The idea is to investigate each problem through reading and lectures and reach a conclusion about it, pro and con, stating reasons for the decision in a short paper. At the end of each two or three week problem session, small two-hour seminars are held to thrash out the problem. Taylor says he doesn't care about a student's position as long as his reasoning is vaild. By thus...