Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ford plants were shuttered in the second week of a United Auto Workers walkout. And at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall for the first time in 35 years, the famed Rockettes, all 46 of them, refused to lift another shapely leg onstage until they were given a minimum of $140 a week (they now earn $99 to start...
...Thieu (see cover story) seemed fair. To be sure, the observers could not be everywhere, and in most cases were taken in tow by Vietnamese officials. "We could all possibly have been bamboozled," allowed New Jersey's Democratic Governor Richard J. Hughes, "but it would have taken a minimum of 25,000 character actors and about 11,000 stagehands to put on the production we have seen...
...demonstrate that it is not quite paralyzed, the government last week eased its controls on installment buying of autos, appliances and furniture; the minimum down payment for a car or truck was cut from 30% to 25%, on appliances from 33% to 25%. But even the government agreed that the move was only a nibble at Britain's knotty economic problem: how to resume its growth without inflation, and without attracting a flood of pound-imperiling imports. Harold Wilson is clearly confident that his economy is ready to rebound, but that is a lonely view in London...
...exhibition of brutality in the purest Packer tradition. The faces might be unfamiliar. Donny Anderson was at halfback, in place of retired Paul Hornung; Jim Grabowski at fullback, replacing deported Jim Taylor; Zeke Bratkowski at quarterback, filling in for injured Bart Starr. But the effect was the same - a minimum of razzle-dazzle and a maximum of crunch. "When it stops paying off for us," grunted Coach Lombard!, "then we'll make some changes...
...equipment on the patient. The person who exposes our children to X rays must have his automobile inspected periodically and must have a driver's license before he can operate it. Yet the X-ray machine he operates may be obsolete and may fail to meet minimum standards, and he may have little or no training or knowledge in how best to operate...