Word: makeshift
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...fuselage is usually just a tangled trellis of thin steel tubing. The cockpit is an open bucket seat, bolted prayerfully to the frame. The power plant is a sputtering, 40-h.p. engine borrowed from a motorcycle. Hovering motionless in midair, its 10-ft. rotor blades windmilling, the makeshift craft looks like an airborne Erector set. But in the hands of an experienced pilot, it can fly like a startled mosquito-straight up to 8,000 ft., forward, sideways or backward at 65 m.p.h., right down to a feather-soft landing on any convenient driveway. Last week, in a dozen...
...Shame, an hour-long study of the plight of the U.S. migratory worker presented last Nov. 25 on CBS Reports. Deliberately scheduled for the day after Thanksgiving, the documentary drew for turkey-stuffed Americans a stark picture of the field hands who rove about the country, living in makeshift squalor, and selling their labor for an average of $900 a year. Moving in shirtsleeves among the film's subjects, Narrator Murrow reached heights of personal indignation, as when he quoted one migrant-hiring Southern farmer: "We used to own our slaves; now we just rent them...
...which in Laos means including as many important families as possible, as well as some Pathet Lao, at least in minor positions. To avoid argument over whether Souvanna or Boun Oum is the "legitimate" Premier, both sides would deal through King Savang Vatthana. Any solution is likely to be makeshift. Says one U.S. diplomat: "Laos is going to be a problem throughout our lifetime and longer." But for Laos to be declared neutral is not necessarily an inevitable step toward a Communist takeover. The Pathet Lao, still a tiny minority, are generally disliked in the areas they control. Within...
Still, the varsity had to share the spotlight with a makeshift team from North Carolina State. State sophomore Ed Spencer won the 200 yard butterfly, and his teammate, Hungarian Peter Fogarasy, captured the 300 yard breast stroke as both turned in meet record clockings...
...around to spelling out exactly how it would be spent. Apart from an aid program, the U.S. proposed that the West Germans ease the pressure on the dollar by paying the cost of the U.S. troops stationed in Germany. The West Germans refused; instead they bundled together a makeshift $1 billion package that consisted chiefly of prepayment of money they owed the U.S. anyway. Kennedy said bluntly that the offer met "neither the problem nor the opportunity...