Word: kaisers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Compromise. Witness after wit ness before the Neuberger committee testified that the most promising ap proach to Preventicare is called "multiphasic testing," a program that the California-based Kaiser Foundation Health Plan has been offering its mem bers ever since...
...Brazilian investors have not taken full advantage of the situation, but foreigners are showing a lively interest. Willys-Overland, 38%-owned by Kaiser Industries, two months ago began assembling Jeeps near the Nordeste city of Recife, where Kelvinator is already building refrigerators. Firestone plans an $11 million tire plant and Italy's Pirelli is building a wire and conductor factory. Other European groups are setting up ventures in canning, batteries and cement forms. Last week the U.S.-backed Inter-American Development Bank chipped in $29.5 million to help finance a $79 million expansion of the Paulo Afonso hydroelectric plant...
...only homeland that has been turned into an official Bantustan is the Transkei, a region of 16,500 square miles and 1.5 million Xhosa tribesmen in the state of Natal. With an elected Parliament of 45 members and Para mount Chief Kaiser Matanzima as Chief, the Transkei was granted semi-autonomy last year, and Verwoerd talks with apparent sincerity of eventual, full independence...
...honor, ends up posing questions no more timeless and universal than Who will get Ursula? and Who will be the next ace to fell 20 British planes? The only way to help such synthetic melodrama to a climax is to reveal, once more, the unstartling news that the Kaiser's forces are about to lose World...
...proved to be a disappointment in other respects. Unlike his father, Emperor Taisho, a dandy who liked to emulate Kaiser Wilhelm by waxing and curling his mustache and galloping around on a horse, Hirohito neither looked nor acted warlike. From a gentle, somewhat toothy, thin-chested little boy, he grew into a gentle, somewhat toothy, thin-chested little man, who loved nothing better than to go splashing around for specimens for his marine-biology collection. Unlike his bold and high-living grandfather, Emperor Meiji, who used to select his bed partner by dropping a silk handkerchief in front...