Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CAMBODIA. Apart from promising Prince Norodom Sihanouk's neutralist wonderland a 500-bed hospital. Russia has left aid to Cambodia largely in the hands of Communist China, which has adopted its own version of U.S. counterpart aid schemes. Periodically Peking sends Cambodia free shipments of cotton textiles, galvanized iron, raw silk, cement and other Chinese products. These goods-last August shipments were valued at $5,000,000-are sold on the local market by the Cambodian government, and the proceeds are spent on dams, irrigation schemes and low-cost loans to farmers. The catch is that the caliber...
...last week sent three missiles streaming into the Atlantic skies from Florida, and marked the most important week of U.S. missile firing to date. From the hot launching pads at Cape Canaveral Test Center shot the Air Force's intermediate-range Thor, the Army's counterpart Jupiter and-successfully for the first time-the Air Force's intercontinental ballistic missile Atlas...
...thousand Harvard kidneys are safe from kidney stones, at least those stones brought on by a large consumption milk. William A. Heaman, Manager of Dining Halls, revealed last night that the Harvard undergraduate, contrary to his liquid-loving Yalie counterpart, drinks an average of two glasses per meal...
...France comes an nin. metal shower ($9.95) that uses water, and from Japan a stove-and-sink combination ($3.95) with a burner that lights up and a tap that runs water, and a battery-operated automatic washing machine ($3) that washes doll clothes almost as efficiently as its adult counterpart...
...report asserted that the Soviet student works longer hours and has a longer school year than his American counterpart. But, the Hungarian felt, they are not better scientists at the end. He held that the American student has an equal basic understanding of his subject...