Word: eastward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ship-line executives concede that the rate schedule is "unscientific." But American President Lines Chief George Killion argues that the differentials on the Pacific are justified, because almost six times more cargo goes westward than eastward, and as a result there is hot competition between carriers for the small-scale eastbound Pacific freight. To Senator Douglas, this argument only proves that the conferences are cartels that hike their rates when effective competition is absent...
...Cardinal Disapproves. It is to this foreign resistance that the Witnesses are addressing themselves this summer-one of the few summers left, they feel, before Armageddon. In 24 massive rallies, starting June 30 in Milwaukee, they are rolling eastward around the world: New York, London, Stockholm, currently Milan and Munich, then on to Jerusalem, Hong Kong, Singapore and Honolulu, ending in Pasadena in September. In Germany, where the sect numbers 79,000 (compared with 308,000 in the U.S.) and can boast that 12,000 of the faithful served time in Nazi concentration camps, opposition is particularly high...
Jockey for Position. Syncom II developed some drift after it went into orbit, as was expected, but in the wrong direction. The Kingsport next ordered Syncom to fire its hydrogen peroxide rocket to correct the slow eastward drift, and actually days will pass before Syncom's delicate guidance apparatus will jockey it into an exactly synchronous orbit. Then it is supposed to swing gently in a north-south figure-eight pattern, crossing the equator over the Atlantic Ocean while radiomen below test how well it can relay messages between distant points on the distant earth...
...Peak of God." A green, mountainous finger pointed eastward into Homer's Aegean, the Athos peninsula was thought sacred long before Jesus came on earth. Aeschylus refers to Athos as "the peak of God," and Christians quite happily modified the belief in their own way. According to one legend, a ship carrying the Virgin Mary to Cyprus was blown to Athos by a storm. When she arrived, the pagan idols spoke to the inhabitants, ordering them to pay homage to the Mother of God, who baptized them, and claimed the mountain as a gift from...
Trade usually precedes political relations, and in West Germany's case, Beitz, 49, beats the path for relations eastward. West Germany has steadfastly refused to trade ambassadors with any nation that recognizes Communist East Germany,*but business with the satellites is another thing. Beitz has sold a floating drydock to the Poles, a tire factory to the Hungarians, a chemical plant to the Russians. Largely because Beitz broke the ice with his smooth business and personal negotiations, Bonn this month will open a trade mission with embassy status in Warsaw, and negotiations are under way to open a similar...