Word: oth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Status Seekers. With Secretary of State Dean Rusk and British Foreign Secretary Lord Home in Moscow this week for the formal treaty signing, oth er nations are only too eager to join hands and sign, too. Ironically, they are all non-nuclear powers, and except for a handful, they will never have a nucle ar capability. At week's end the following had agreed to sign: Afghanistan, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, East Germany, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Finland, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Laos, Li beria, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Soma lia, the U.A.R...
...Hampton Roads is the first of two units of N. & W.'s $25 million coal Pier 6, the world's largest coal-loading fa cility. Its huge conveyor belts are capable of carrying coal to ships at a maximum rate of 20,000 tons an hour. Among oth er modern improvements, the pier also "custom-blends" coal for customers, not unlike a careful mixing of Turkish and Virginia tobaccos: giant rotary dumpers empty four railroad gondolas simultaneously, and within minutes electronically mix the different coals into a desired blend...
...stage presence and dramatic insight, Sutherland is still no match for that oth er mistress of rare and early opera, Maria Callas. But not even Callas fans could deny last week that in sheer vocal technique, Sutherland had earned her Olympic gold medal...
...Sign Mistaken. To keep everything going smoothly, Lopez Mateos last year asked leaders of government workers' unions-including the railwaymen's Redlining Demetrio Vallejo and the teachers' Othón Salazar-to postpone wage demands for one year until Lopez Mateos could pay off some inherited government debts. Vallejo took the request as a sign of weakness and in March 1959 called a wildcat strike. Lopez Mateos cracked down hard, threw Vallejo and 2,600 other railwaymen into jail. Vallejo and about 500 strikers have been there ever since without trial. Ex-President Cardenas, still a hero...
...Gabel's eighth-floor apartment began removing a screen from a window. The screen-a substitute for an air conditioner that had gone out of whack-was propped in place by a couple of towel-wrapped dumbbells. The maid removed one of the dumbbells but the oth er, an eight-pounder, rolled down the windowsill. The maid lunged to grab...