Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soviet publications are painfully solemn in most respects, but in science they go the limit in their search for sensationalism. They tell with wide-eyed enthusiasm of numerous sightings of abominable snowmen. They have seriously reported salamanders that came to life after being frozen solid for 5,000 years; a semiconductor device that gives out more energy than is fed into it; a monster that leaves tracks on the bottom of the ocean; a heavy mass of ice that fell from space and did not melt; a mysterious force pervading the universe that makes all revolving bodies, such as Earth...
Over the next two years, GM spend $1.2 billion to retool for new models and nearly $2 billion to build three new plants and enlarge and improve three dozen existing ones, many of which are producing to the limit. The spending will create 50,000 new jobs at G.M.-and thousands more for its suppliers and construction contractors. Donner predicted "continued dynamic growth for our industry," said that G.M. is gearing up for what should be a normal market of 10,000,000 cars and trucks a year by 1970. That is certainly a conservative estimate, considering that sales...
...length of time that a woman can continue taking the pills safely is still uncertain. FDA has set the recommended limit for Enovid and Ortho-Novum at four years, and of Enovid-E at three years, though it is holding the newest pills to two years for the present. There has been some speculation that long-term use of the pills might postpone the menopause and leave women fertile far beyond nature's normal age limit of 45 to 50. But women who were nearing the menopause when they started on the pills several years ago have since...
Another key amendment was offered by Nebraska's Republican Senator Roman Hruska. Seeking a nonsubsidy way to ease the economic troubles of the U.S. livestock industry (TIME, Feb. 28), Hruska wanted to limit imports of foreign beef and veal to 540 million lbs. annually, instead of the 920 million lbs. called for in recent agreements between the U.S. and Australia, New Zealand and Ireland. While Hruska's amendment appealed to some lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, South Dakota Democrat George McGovern noted that it "would cut the ground from under U.S. representatives" at forthcoming international tariff...
Died. Colonel John Charles Nickerson Jr., 48, U.S. Army missileer who publicly attacked a 1956 Pentagon decision to limit the Army to short-range missiles, for which he earned a court-martial and a tour of duty in the Canal Zone, but vindication when an Army Jupiter put the first U.S. satellite into orbit; in an auto accident; near Alamogordo...