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Word: heaviest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cloud of Sudanese flies around the British-built Comets and Russian turboprop AN-12s as they transshipped their cargoes to smaller aircraft. Although the Sudanese government cynically claimed that the tarpaulin-covered crates carried nothing more dangerous than "medical supplies," they must have been the world's heaviest bandages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Needed: A Divine Force | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

...mortars, isolated on a nearby commanding hill. In a bitter three-day fight, the Reds virtually wiped out Anlao's 100 defenders. The attackers finally withdrew before air power and 1,000 counterattacking government troops, but there was concern over the capture of Anlao's guns-heaviest mortars the Reds have seized to date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Fighting the Reds & the Bonzes | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

Giant Squeeze. No major country is ready to slam the door on U.S. businessmen, but the welcome is cooling most rapidly where recent American in vestments have been heaviest. As the flood of dollars shows no sign of receding, European businessmen are increasingly worried about being squeezed out by U.S. corporate giants, which have such a high scale of financing, research and marketing. In West Germany, where U.S. business has a $2 billion stake and General Motors' Opel has become a formidable competitor of Volkswagen German industrialists are beginning to pressure the government to do something. While Italy still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americans Abroad: The Welcome Grows Cool | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

...will have just as much influence in the world as we can earn and deserve"-and gave his Labor government 100 days to make its mark. The financial world passed judgment in less than half that time, and in a crushing vote of no-confidence last week mounted the heaviest attack on the pound that Britain has faced since the early postwar years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: The $3 Billion Bail Bond | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

Confirmed Splitters. Goldwater, in fact, is Keating's heaviest burden. With a record 8,500,000 voters on the rolls this year, Johnson is expected to win the state by somewhere between 750,000 and 2,000,000. It is taken for granted that Bobby will run far, far behind Johnson on the Democratic ticket, but for Keating to have a chance it will require ticket splitting of heroic and historic proportions. In this, Ken Keating finds himself in the same dilemma as Republican candidates in a score of other states. For as Election Year 1964 nears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: How Long Are the Coattails? | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

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