Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the B-70, designed by North American, is still in development stages, the first tactical wing of B-70s (45 aircraft) is scheduled to become operational in only five years. It will be costly: prototypes will run upwards of $150 million apiece, and the whole program will run to...
Uncertain how to meet the new pressures, rebel leaders sat in Tunis early last week awaiting the arrival of M'Hammed Yazid, "Minister of Information" in the F.L.N. and its liaison officer at the U.N. Flying in from New York, Yazid suavely brushed off a horde of reporters and...
In an open-air market near Manchester last week, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, smiling in the hustings, took his stand alongside a gypsy fortuneteller's trailer, confidently told an audience of 300 tweedy housewives and white-aproned fruit vendors: "This country is better off today-better...
With voting day (Oct. 8) barely a fortnight off, Britain's 1959 general election had turned into a door-to-door battle in the 205 "marginal" parliamentary constituencies (those carried last time by fewer than 5,000 votes), where all political observers agreed the outcome would be decided. The...
Confident that they had found a means of playing on the shortchanged feeling that many a $35-a-week British wage earner feels as he steers his motorbike among the Rolls Royces and Bentleys, Labor's orators claimed the Jasper scandal as certified proof that "the few" were skimming...