Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sticking on Subsidies. At first blush, a U.S. wheat sale seemed like a good idea. It would cut the nation's 1.2 billion-bushel wheat surplus-if only by 75 million or 100 million bushels. It would narrow the U.S.'s $5 billion deficit in the balance of payments-if only by a small fraction. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, an opponent of any deal with the Reds, was for this one. So was Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges. So were Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright, Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Allen Ellender and House Agriculture Committee...
California (40). Efforts to build a favorite-son movement around G.O.P. Senator Thomas Kuchel have failed so far. Goldwater leads Rockefeller for the state's convention votes-but with the G.O.P split, Kennedy would have a narrow margin over either Republican...
...Thaw? Diplomats ride roughshod over Bonn's traffic laws. The city's narrow, choked streets-many dating from medieval times-allow little room for maneuvering, but cars with "O" plates (indicating the diplomatic corps) swing arrogantly into "no parking" zones and further complicate the traffic problem. Police rarely ticket diplomatic drivers, knowing that they will use their immunity to avoid answering the summons. When a British correspondent had the bumper ripped off his car by a speeding Ivory Coast diplomat passing on the wrong side, the police waved on the African at the flash of his passport...
...must be erased. "Ivy League" refers to a bastardized version of the natural shoulder model, first produced on a mass scale about 1938. Prior to that time, only Brooks Brothers and J. Press promoted the natural shoulder. These stores derived the Ivy look from the five button suits with narrow lapels worn by fashionable late Victorians in the 1890's. Since 1950, the natural shoulder model has changed little with the exception of narrower lapels, shorter coats, and slimmer trousers...
...Steel plans to streamline by combining seven divisions covering mining, shipping and steelmaking into a single unit in hopes that the elephant will be able to move more quickly. It will consolidate its research and ac counting operations and narrow its 53 separate sales offices in 28 cities (as many as three to a city) to only one to a city. Seven other autonomous divisions, largely concerned with steel fabricating, were left untouched...