Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ridden back-country trails. So far, they have killed as many as eight Communists a night by using such tactics. "We've licked the Viet Cong because we've surprised them more than they have us," says Clement. "They have neither the firepower nor the reserve to counter us. When we can swim in the sea of people as well as they can, then we're going...
...pool and, be mused by background music, fish for carp. The fad caught on last year when the angling parlors mushroomed from a few score to a present-day 539 in the heart of the city. One parlor was installed in a former bar with the pool behind the counter and the bar stools used as perches for fishermen. Saburo Kamekura, manager of an air-condi tioned establishment on the Ginza, To kyo's Fifth Avenue, claims 1,000 cus tomers a day. There, pretty young girls in Bermuda shorts cry "Sugoi! [terrif ic!]" when customers land...
...understanding of the subjects involved," said Etherington, and exchange officers had unsuccessfully tried to explain to him how the specialist system works. At week's end Smith issued another attack on the specialist system, confirmed that he wants his stock to go back to the over-the-counter market, where there are no tours or free lunches but where Wolverine's stock for two years has remained relatively steady...
...outdone, the computers last week verified what Mrs. Petit and other housewives were noticing at the check-out counter. The Labor Department reported that the consumer price index in June scored the biggest in crease in the past two years, rising by one-half of 1%, to 110.1% of the 1957-59 average. Main ingredients in this rise were meat, which climbed 6.1% between April and June, and vegetables...
...small, lO½-watt radio transmitter. It was programmed and equipped to send to Earth a continuous stream of reports on 39 scientific and 90 engineering measurements. Crowded into the spacecraft were a new type of helium gas magnetometer to study magnetic fields, an ionization chamber and Geiger counter to measure galactic cosmic rays, a collector cup to measure the solar wind's barrage of protons, a cosmic-ray telescope and cosmic-dust collector -plus the all-important TV camera. "I don't think you could improve the payload," said one of the project scientists...