Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first step toward safety would be for the Government to iron out the confusing, conflicting jumble of state traffic laws. No fewer than 12% of all fatal accidents involve out-of-state drivers. Experts estimate that if Washington were to make the laws and signs uniform on all roads-as they are throughout Europe-this alone would save 2,000 lives a year...
...three years and earns $400 million annually as a basic supplier for Hong Kong. The Chinese pay for their imports, usually in hard cash, by selling what grows naturally: human hair for wigs, camel's hair for coats, pig bristles, soybeans and other vegetables, as well as pig iron and metal ores...
Last week Odinga got his comeup pance. In a series of finely tuned politi cal maneuvers, Kenyatta expelled elev en of his Iron Curtain friends, stage-managed a reorganization of the KANU party that abolished Odinga's job as deputy president and elected eight regional vice presidents in his place -all of them anti-Odinga. A small group of Odinga fanatics resigned to form their own opposition party, but it was a ges ture so hopeless that Odinga himself refused to join them...
...Russian economists and technicians went to Tokyo and sounded as if they actually meant business. Mikhail Nesterov, president of the Soviet Chamber of Commerce and head of the delegation, said, "Western Siberia has reserves of 40 billion tons of oil, 42 billion cubic meters of lumber, vast amounts of iron ore, coal and nonferrous metals, all waiting to be tapped." He invited the Japanese to suggest methods of tapping them all and sharing the wealth...
...protestniks, world changers and plain and assorted knuckleheads. Obviously Hersey has tuned his fine ear to the contemporary campus (he finished the book shortly before his appointment as master of Yale's Pierson College). His very funny student demonstration against majors in the curriculum (ABOLISH THE MAJOR: INTELLECTUAL IRON MAIDEN!) is straight out of today's headlines (TIME, Feb. 25), and his Professor Gutwillig is a marvelously pointed caricature of a preposterously ineffectual intellectual...