Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast, the U.S. finds it equally expensive to maintain 225,000 men in Western Europe. Washington is perennially faced with the problem of offsetting the balance-of-payments deficit ($1.3 billion last year) that the troops generate, and must make up for it by selling weapons to its NATO allies. Recently, the Defense Department had to twist Bonn's arm to speed up payment on $675 million in reciprocal purchases...
Alternative to Theology. By contrast to Ball's rigid view of the shape of tomorrow's Europe-and to a large extent thanks to Charles de Gaulle-there is a new view of Europe burgeoning in Washington. Last week ex-White House Adviser McGeorge Bundy advocated before the Fulbright committee that West Germany accept the Oder-Neisse frontier with Poland and renounce its claims to Heimatsrecht in the lost territories of Silesia and East Prussia. His sentiments were reinforced by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in testimony last week on Capitol Hill. In reply to a question by Bobby...
...advantage of starting from a fairly advanced feudal base. The Japanese have developed a truly industrial society within many of the old forms. A working democracy coexists with a profound need for authority and group action, a consumer economy with esthetic frugality (one picture hanging at a time, in contrast with the Western collector's crowded wall). Industry is paternalistic and feudal-hardly anyone gets fired or quits-although that is beginning to change...
...given to more than 500 youngsters in the Philadelphia area. The children developed no fever or other mumps symptoms. Since vaccination, at least 100 of them have been exposed to natural mumps infection either at home or in school, and only two have come down with the disease. By contrast, among the unvaccinated children who were studied for comparison, 61 out of 100 got classic mumps...
...income and earnings levies will bring in $160 million. By contrast, a 25% increase won by Lindsay in the stock-transfer tax-a hike that attracted national publicity and caused the New York Stock Exchange to threaten to move to New Jersey-will be a minor source ($35 million a year) of new revenue...