Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Well trained in both conventional and guerrilla warfare, the Chinese foot soldier is amply armed with Chinese-made automatic weapons-usually a stamped copy of the Russian World War II vent-barreled burp gun. He is supported by light and medium mortars, bazooka-style rocket launchers, recoilless rifles, and artillery that in performance ranks with the best in the world. As to armor and transport, Mao's millions are woefully underequipped. Some 4,000 Russian T-34 tanks are still operating, but though that machine was first-rank armor during the Korean War, it is now obsolete. Still, armor...
...objective," says Lawrence, "is to make Braniff emerge as the most efficient jet operator in the world." Though only ten of its 52 planes are jets, Braniff expects to take delivery this year of 14 British-made BAC-111 medium-range jets, has options to buy a dozen more. The airline, whose routes range as far north as Minneapolis and as far south as Buenos Aires, has also applied for the Dallas-Miami run and for flights between the Pacific Southwest and Northwest. And Harding Lawrence's selection gave new life to rumors that Braniff and Continental will eventually...
...exam. Effective lecturing is made more difficult by some students' inability to understand spoken English, particularly a problem in the first year. This may also be a result of inadequacies in secondary education. In Madras State, for example, Tamilian regionalism complicates the problem, where Tamil replaces English as the medium of instruction in high schools...
When you try on a boot, bring the heavy rag socks you will wear and a medium-heavy cotton sock. An expert will always sell you a tight fitting boot, since after a while the leather will stretch and mould to your foot. Push your foot forward as far as possible so that your toe touches the end and then feel how much room there is in back at the heel. If it is more than one finger, the boot...
...also chose the medium of a review to wonder whether the "concert reading" as it is done at the Loeb is an appropriately rewarding exploitation of the talent and capital which the Loeb's presence has made so manifestly available. Any resemblance between our reviews and those of a "professional critic" is purely coincidental...