Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regime's lifeline. A Soviet field marshal commands East Germany's 200,000-man army, its 600-plane air force and its 200-ship navy. The Soviet ambassador frequently sits in on meetings of Ulbricht's Politburo. More than 72% of East Germany's exports flow eastward, and East German tourists generally head the same way. License plates from Poland, Hungary and the Soviet Union dot East Germany's sparsely traveled highways, and its famed spas and museums echo with the labial lilt of Slavic voices. Soviet troops-350,000 of them-have created enclaves...
...Guards. They want to save up for a motorbike, grow mini-Beatle haircuts and twist to Western rock-'n'-roll tunes. They resent East Germany's enforced isolation, which denies them the chance to read almost all West German writers and even cuts off the flow of literature from such slightly more liberal Communist regimes as those in Czechoslovakia and Poland. The few Western works that are allowed in are avidly read. Among the favorites: John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage and the collected works of Walt Whitman...
Wilcox said that if the middle-group courses, including new offerings such as Nat Sci 114, "The Flow of Liquids and Gases," do not get a better response next year, the concept would be "finished" in the Natural Sciences...
...religious magazine, a member of the Easton, Penn., Human Relations Commission relates his run-in with MRA. The Commission agreed reluctantly to sponsor an MRA film called The Crowning Experience, based on the life of a Negro educator. It was all quite innocent until the MRA publicity began to flow: "[MRA] stated--erroneously and to our embarrassment--that we had sponsored and paid for the dinner that preceded the showing of the film. Without authorization they sent out invitations to the dinner over our chairman's name...
...Minneapolis-based Investors Diversified Services will pick up another 75% to create a 90% loan. The arrangement is called "piggyback" financing because it avoids risky second mortgages, involves a single joint loan on each house. Brewer calls it "a virtual partnership" between lenders and manufacturers "to assure a continuous flow of money to buyers at rates and down payments they can afford...