Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...canal. The Israelis have roughly one division and crews to man perhaps a third as many guns, which they move frequently to deprive the Egyptians of fixed targets. An estimated 40,000 shells were lobbed across the canal. But despite a marked improvement in Egyptian gunnery since the last major exchange in October, casualties on both sides were relatively light. The Israelis put their own losses at five soldiers killed, 26 wounded, two vehicles destroyed, and a Piper Cub downed by a Soviet-made SA-2 missile. The Egyptians admitted to four soldiers killed, 39 wounded and 72 civilian casualties...
...rocket and mortar fire continued to pound up and down South Viet Nam and the Communists' post-Tet offensive of 1969 ended its third week, it bore some superficial resemblances to its predecessor at Tet last year. There was scarcely a major city or military center in the country that had not suffered some enemy fire. The numbers of provincial capitals that came under attack this year and last were identical: 29. "If you plotted the action by throwing up darts at a board," said one U.S. officer, "they'd look about the same." Outwardly the most distressing...
...Sholokhov's They Fought for Their Country, his first major novel since The Quiet Don came out 40 years ago, began to be excerpted in Pravda. That was slightly surprising, since the novel had been rumored to be banned be cause of its critical portrayal of Joseph Stalin. In fact, Sholokhov does seem to go somewhat beyond what the Brezhnev regime has until now considered politic in Soviet literature-but not very far. He mentions the existence of Stalinist concentration camps, but in considerable understatement notes that "thousands" were wrongly imprisoned in them. Russians know the figures...
...bonuses and a guaranteed annual wage in return for no wildcat strikes. Leaders from all 16 Ford unions approved, and the committee's chairman called the deal "bold and imaginative." Similar sentiments were voiced by Barbara Castle, Minister of Employment and Productivity, who has been pressing for a major labor reform, chiefly through sharp restrictions on wildcat strikes (TIME...
Tide's Out. Axion has jumped into a commanding lead largely by moving into more major cities before Biz. The total market now is $60 million a year and growing so fast that other companies are rushing to grab a share. Lever Brothers, the U.S. arm of Unilever, is test-marketing its enzyme presoak, called Amaze. In addition, detergents containing enzyme additives have been introduced by the three biggest soap companies-Gain and Tide XK by Procter & Gamble, Punch by Colgate and Drive by Lever Brothers. Regular Tide, which has been the No. 1 detergent since its introduction...