Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...return to Seoul a hoard of Korean national treasures (ranging from ceramics to calligraphy) that the Japanese had stolen during the occupation years. In the most controversial agreement of all, covering South Korea's rich offshore fishing grounds, Japan won the right to trawl outside a twelve-mile limit -it had previously been 60 miles-thus gaining limited access to some 85,000 additional square miles of coveted waters...
...opened, "to 'Jack Paar and His Friends.' " It was virtually the only abrasive brush of the hour. "Some people," he cautioned, "expect a tearful farewell. Others expect I will take a few swings." But Jack held back both tears and hostilities. His "easy way out" was to limit his contribution to a few bridges of continuity-the rest of the show was a splice-up of some of his favorite vignettes from past seasons. There he was again as the bowlegged, barelegged (except for anklet socks) toreador fleeing a rampaging bull in a Madrid ring. Or replaying...
...Silently as a Doe." Washington urges the centers to limit their classes to 15 children. Each class has a professional teacher, a teacher's assistant and a nonprofessional volunteer aide, preferably a poor person familiar with the children's environment...
...about all this, but they have their hands full just competing for help. Because labor has become more precious than goods, German manufacturers wink at pilferage that costs them an estimated $1 billion a year. Dutch housebuilders commonly pay their men "black salaries"-10% to 20% above the legal limit-or lose them; last year 18 small Dutch textile mills closed for lack of workers. Belgian coal companies, which fly in weekly planeloads of Turkish miners, cry that Dutch and German labor poachers steal their recruits almost as fast as they arrive...
...Weight Limit. To eliminate one of the most complained-about airline practices, American Airlines and United recently filed plans with the Civil Aeronautics Board to scrap the 40-lb. baggage weight limit (the big new jets make the limit practically academic) and substitute a piece limit regardless of weight; last week TWA joined the trend by asking the CAB to approve its own more liberal system. In addition to the rapid growth of in-flight entertainment and the prevalence of "gourmet" meals on longer flights, the lines are going out of their way to make the cabin more like home...