Word: parallele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Music 1 and Music 124 run roughly parallel courses over the history of music at slightly different levels of rigor. The activities of Music 253 ("Tubby and Tuba") stand explained in Anthro. 103a, "Primate Social Behavior." And for those weary of this animal hedonism, there are the ascetic pleasures of Math. 272a, discussing "CW complexes, homology, cohomology, homotopy...
...joining Ways and Means' 15 Democrats in approving it. But there was more of a struggle than the vote would indicate. With federal expenses running close to $100 billion a year and the national debt above $300 billion, many businessmen and politicians argued that cutting taxes without a parallel reduction in spending was the height of fiscal irresponsibility. Among the critics was Dwight Eisenhower, who said last week that he supported a tax cut "only if the persistent and frightening increase in federal expenditures is halted in its tracks...
...France imposed a deadline after which he threatened to resign-a move that would have brought the conference to a grinding halt and continued a war that could not be won. Prodded by this ultimatum, the conference finally agreed on terms that would partition Viet Nam at the 17th parallel. The agreement gave the Viet Minh the industrial North, leaving the government of Ngo Dinh Diem with the rice-rich South. New military bases were prohibited, and civilians were permitted to leave one zone to take up residence in the other (nearly 800,000 North Vietnamese moved to the South...
Working for Billy. Along Fleet Street, he inevitably was dubbed Britain's Henry Ford-and the careers of the two in many ways ran parallel. Son of an accountant who fell on hard times, William Morris* was forced to leave school at 16, became a 70?-a-week bicycle mechanic. When he was turned down for a raise, he quit and went to work "for Billy Morris," started making both bicycles and motorcycles. Gradually, automobile owners began driving up for repairs-and Morris decided that autos were his future. In 1910, with $20,000 in savings...
...erupts in a variety of verandas, terraces and wall-to-wall windows. Attached to the back is a glassed-in gymnasium with Oriental rugs, where Rusk and Khrushchev played a brisk game of badminton. Medicine balls of assorted sizes lie around along with other muscle-building equipment, such as parallel bars, weight pulleys, climbing bars and a gymnastic horse. A corridor leads to Nikita's pride and joy: a 25-yd. swimming pool that can be heated to any temperature, or opened to the sea breeze by a pushbutton that controls enormous steel-and-glass walls. The roof...