Word: convertions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...figure out your class rank, under the CEP plan, convert your grades to numbers and use the following list of minimum requirements: Group I, A (14); II, B-plus (12); III, B-minus (10); IV, C-plus (8); V, C-minus (6). E's would be averaged in (they aren't now), but anyone with an E or two D's would be listed unsatisfactory ad well as getting a rank...
...each of Brazil's 3.7 billion coffee trees that they plow under. The idea is to cut production back by 20% to match what Brazil really needs for exports and home consumption. At the same time, planters are being encouraged through price supports to convert coffee land to rice, beans, corn and other crops in short supply. To put pressure on big operators, the government has put the lid on currency inflation, there by trimming Brazilian shippers' export earnings by 25% -40%. Says one U.S. observer: "This has the coffee people scared as hell." The I.C.O...
Actually, argued Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay, 25, fighting isn't very timeconsuming. It takes up only 10% of his waking hours, leaving the other 90% free for his "ministering" as a Black Muslim parson. Trouble is, he can't seem to convert his Louisville draft board to the view that his religious vocation entitles him to an exemption. Nor should his claims to being a conscientious objector keep him from serving, the board ruled. Now training in Houston for his Feb. 6 bout with Ernie Terrell, the Greatest conscientiously objected, bawling: "We're gonna take this...
...aggressive (that is, masculine) resistance to his peace program, he practiced the feminine strategy of capitulation. Why? "His unconscious desire to be Christ invented the comforting theory that he could obtain all that he wished without a fight, that he could hand all his weapons to his enemies and convert them by that noble gesture into saints." Describing Wilson's 1919 cross-country campaign to plead his case for a League of Nations, the authors observe: "One may be sure that in his unconscious, when he boarded the train he was mounting an ass to ride into Jerusalem...
...Mohave furnaces will gobble up the equivalent of two 100-car trains of coal each day when they begin operating in 1970. Peabody will mine the coal in the Black Mesa area of northern Arizona, crush and convert it to slurry by adding water, pump it to the Mohave plant by way of a 275-mile coal pipeline (the longest of its kind in the world...