Word: minimum
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...Soviet Premier will be welcomed to U.S. soil by President Dwight Eisenhower and other Government and military leaders. Metropolitan police. Secret Service and State Department security officers will line his route from the airport to Blair House, his official guest quarters across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. A minimum number of Soviet red flags will be displayed by the U.S. in Washington; there will be no parades through red-flag-decked streets. On his first night, Khrushchev will attend a formal dinner given by the President, and the next day will visit the Agricultural Research Center at Beltsville...
...Comprehensive benefits on a service (rather than cash indemnity) basis, "with an absolute minimum of restrictions and limitations...
When college presidents parade their woes, it is time to mention Jean Paul Mather*of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. The maximum salary he can offer a full professor is $8,684; the minimum offered the same man at the neighboring University of Connecticut is $8,100. This summer Massachusetts doubled tuition to $200, planned to use the money to attract sorely needed new teachers. But things do not work that way in the commonwealth of Massachusetts. Last week the state senate voted down Mather's house-approved pay-raise plan. And after five years of thoughtless state...
...temperature required for a sustained reaction is, at a minimum, 50 million degrees. No conventional container could withstand such a temperature, so physicists surround the "plasma" of deuterium with a magnetic field whose lines of force are powerful enough to hold it. Then an enormous bolt of electricity is shot into the system to make the plasma particles move rapidly, thereby supplying the necessary heat...
...several young animals, eventually hit on the unborn Iamb (from a ewe slaughtered just before it is due to deliver) as the best source for most purposes. To ensure a steady supply of fresh, uncontaminated material, he has a veterinarian choose the animals and supervise slaughtering. Of his $120 minimum fee for a single injection, most goes for the raw material, he says, leaving him $30. For aged or debilitated patients, and for doctors elsewhere who want to use the method, Rhein-Chemie in Heidelberg packages dried cells (average cost: $5-$10 a vial). "It's like the difference...