Word: null
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mary Bunting slipped back to the Yale lab. "When I was home all day, I got tired," she says. "When I was working part-time, I could enjoy the ironing." She needed spirit. The Buntings were building their own house. While digging the cellar, they all lived in a null goat house -after fumigating...
Ultimatum. Since February, United Nations forces in the Congo had been armed with a Security Council resolution calling upon Tshombe to dismiss the 500 European officers leading his null army-and actively working toward maintaining Katanga's secession from the central Congo government, even at the cost of civil war. Last month, the Congo's moderate Premier Cyrille Adoula asked the U.N. to enforce the resolution. O'Brien gave Tshombe until Sept. 9 to get rid of the Europeans...
...People's Income Doubling Plan," Japan's Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda decided that his nation's economic growth rate (a phenomenal 17.7% in 1960) would soon stabilize at an average 7% a year. On that basis, he calculated, Japan could boost its gross national product from null $39.8 billion to $72 billion by 1970. But last week Japan's growth rate was still clipping along at over 13%-and the Japanese economy was suffering from too much boom...
...weather F4H fighter bombers for close air support. In testimony before a House subcommittee, Marine Commandant General David Shoup complained: "We have more fight than we can ferry." To ferry in marines and G.I.s when the brush fires begin to burn, the bill calls for 119 new null and C-135 Air Force transports...
Clarence Burke, 55, formerly head of the high-voltage switchgear department in null division (he got a 30-day suspended sentence), testified that in 1957 he got a telephone call from W. V. O'Brien, a top G.E. sales executive, who said that "he had been ordered by Mr. Paxton to bring about price stabilization." Price stabilization, explained Burke, "meant to contact competitors and get agreements on price...