Word: egg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oval of an Egg. In time, India's artists developed their own canons for the image. Since Buddha was more than human, they did not follow human anatomy but devised a complex series of mathematical formulas for each part of Buddha's body. In the case of life-size Buddhas, for example, they authorized so many finger-widths from hairline to eyebrows, so many more from brows to nose, so many from nose to chin. In some areas, Buddha's features were made to resemble some perfect form in nature. His head had to be a perfect...
...Food is so short that staples are up 40% since 1958. But that is just the legal price hike. On the thriving black market that has developed in Cuba, the jump is often 200%. Beef costs $2 a lb., black beans $1 a lb., 200 U.S. aspirin $3, an egg 25?. Legal clothing prices are up 100%; used shoes bring $40 a pair on the black market...
Inside the Egg. The talks actually had broken down, when West Germany's Ludwig Erhard devised the last-ditch compromise that proved acceptable to John F. Kennedy. It calls for both sides to make equal, across-the-board percentage reductions, as proposed by the U.S.-though they will probably fall far short of the ideal 50% envisaged by Washington. In return, the U.S. agreed in principle to make drastic cuts in the highest tariff categories. Since the fine print will not actually be negotiated until May 1964, some U.S. and British officials were fearful, as one put it. that...
Concluded Erhard: "We are agreed on the shell of an egg. What will be in the egg, we do not know...
...Ottawa everyone knew what was in the egg, but no one knew what to call it. Well in advance of last week's semiannual NATO Council meeting, the U.S. and its allies had agreed on a new addition to NATO's alphabetical armory: IANF, meaning interallied nuclear force. A limited first step toward giving NATO its own nuclear deterrent. IANF now consists mainly of 180 British V-bombers and three Mediterranean-based U.S. Polaris submarines that the two nations will turn over to NATO command. While it also includes 60 French tactical bombers, for which the U.S. controls...