Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forged a new weapon: the Workers' Mao Tse-tung's Thought Propaganda Teams, which were made up of elite industrial workers backed up by army "instructors." The teams were finally able to force the rival Red Guard factions into "threeway alliances" and to put them under the firm control of 29 municipal, provincial and regional revolutionary committees. The subdued Guards were then shipped in wholesale lots to distant rural areas to live and labor while they learned to "serve the people...
...with his brothers Joyce and William founded Hallmark Cards, Inc., biggest manufacturer of greeting cards; in Kansas City, Mo. Rollie was the salesman of the team that started printing postcards with a $474 investment in 1907, then, by dreaming up greetings or condolences for every occasion, grew into a firm that now produces more than 7,000,000 cards a day, with an estimated annual sale of $200 million. Died. Edward R. Burke, 87, Democratic Senator from Nebraska from 1935-41, who started as a New Dealer, but soon opposed F.D.R.'s attempts to pack the Supreme Court, levy...
...Reporter Stands Firm...
...firm covered the trails with loose Styrofoam pellets, which the wind blew into the woods. Others have experimented with long, shining strips of polymer plastics, which proved to be too slow and did not allow the ski edges to bite into the material on turns. Still others have developed mats with nylon bristles; they worked well?until the skier fell. Recalls Jack Kurlander, a founder of the Great Gorge ski area in New Jersey: "The bristles were needle-sharp and everybody tore his pants. There was blood, blood, blood. Boy! Were we embarrassed...
...Crane Co. is building whole bathrooms, and Borg-Warner has devised a bathroom-kitch-en module for use in slum rehabilitation. Both United States Gypsum and National Gypsum Co. have experimented with rehabilitation, and U.S.G. branched out earlier this year by investing $1,000,000 in a Memphis firm that aims to build large projects of low-cost new homes...