Word: parallele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...across the Pacific for the misty-eyed moment in Hawaii. There, at Hickam Field, U.S.A.F. Gen. Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., 56, leader of the first B-29 raid on Tokyo in 1944, was mustered out after 35 years of service. In the White House Rose Garden, with parallel pomp, U.S.N. Admiral George Anderson Jr., 56, the Chief of Naval Operations who planned and ran the Cuba blockade and then was replaced by President Kennedy, got a gold star (in lieu of a second Distinguished Service Medal) from the President with "strong personal appreciation" for 36 years of service...
Walrath to the Senate Commerce Com mittee: "This is not a task we would have asked you to give us, but I think we are qualified. We have the staff, the procedures for handling parallel matters; this is not foreign to our experience. We are prepared to give it the priority that is called for." But the ICC also has long had a reputation for painfully slow motion...
Baily's Beads. Observers close to the path of totality who stretch a white sheet on the ground may see the mysterious shadow bands, which are somehow caused by irregularities in the earth's atmosphere. They appear as vague lines of light and dark, drifting roughly parallel. An amateur who uses simple apparatus (a yardstick to record their direction and estimate their dimensions) can observe them about as well as professional astronomers...
Every one is doing it. The economies of the European Common Market nations, Britain and the U.S. are all rising in a rare parallel movement. Last week in Geneva, the United Nations Economic and Social Council reported that the world's economic prospects have turned around sharply since 1962 because of unexpectedly strong consumer spending, and that "economic activity in the early months of 1963 was marked by the vigor of its upthrust." In Brussels, the Common Market's quarterly survey of businessmen's expectations found "a climate more favorable" than a few months...
Gustafson, recently appointed research advisor to Pakistan, maintained that increased government spending must parallel a tax reduction to keep the economy at a high level