Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crop, one-fourth (9,000,000 tons) went to India. For weeks, there had been no word on whether the U.S. plans to sign another wheat agreement with India - to replace one that expires Dec. 31. The long delay reflected the White House view that India could be moving faster in modernizing its agriculture and that other countries must share the burden by providing grain, fertilizer or the hard currency...
Contracting Cloud. Though R Mon is a near neighbor, only 2,000 light-years away, its characteristics have universal implications. Most astronomers agree that the sun formed from a slowly rotating nebula-a cloud of dust and gas that gradually contracted because of gravitation, and began to rotate faster. When pressures at the dense center of the shrinking cloud produced enough heat, thermonuclear reactions took place and the sun began to burn, still surrounded by the outlying portions of the cloud-apparently the current state of R Man's evolution. As more of the particles fell toward the burning...
Less than a month after disclosing; Soviet efforts to erect a defensive shield of antiballistic missiles, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara revealed last; week that both Russia's defensive missile system and its long-range offensive missiles are going into place faster than U.S. intelligence sources had anticipated. The Russians, it is now estimated will have from 650 to 700 iCBMs in; place by 1968 instead of the 600 previously expected. Of greater consequence, its new anti-missile system, which was at first thought to be limited to such major cities as Moscow and Leningrad, is now believed...
...credit-starved housing industry has sunk proportionately faster and fur ther in 1966, compared with where it stood a year ago, than the whole...
...Principal's experts, Thomas B. Lyles, principal of Virginia's Wakefield Forest Elementary School, contends that his teachers have seen their students progress faster and enjoy school more when boys and girls were placed in separate classes. Most others hold that early acquaintance with the opposite sex in class is of more value than the solution of problems involved in the sex differences. Nearly everyone agrees that there is a great need for more men in elementary school teaching, but they see little hope of attracting more. The obstacle is a matter of confusion over the roles...