Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chats, Charters & Chow. Most expensive single item for any campaigner is television time. One of Oregon's twelve stations, KGW, reported that in one-minute campaign spots alone, Nixon bought 112, Reagan 104, Kennedy 58, McCarthy 46 and Rocky 17. The station charges $400 per minute for a political spot in prime time (7:30-11 p.m.), $300 in Class A time (6-7:30 p.m.) and $110 in daytime...
...swift approval. Congress took another action last week that may have an even longer-range impact: it increased the starting salary for the District's 3,100-man police force (23% black) from $6,700 to $8,000 as of July 1. Though Washington already has more police per 1,000 people than any other city in the U.S., local officials hope that the pay raise will help build an even bigger force...
Testing the Tiers. In the renewed flurry of gold speculation prompted by France's political crisis, the free-market price of the metal rose to a new high of $42.60 per oz. in London last week. That brought out enough sellers to push the price back down to $41.75 at week's end. The drop eased concern that the speculators might wreck the two-tier system of gold prices that has unhitched the gold market from the $35-per-oz. gold price for monetary reserves. Still, the system's durability depends chiefly on how fast...
...their way out of the spin. The computer will do the proper pumping for them in the auto-linear system. With one impulse it takes control of the brakes away from the brake pedal; with another it applies its own braking at the rate of 35 to 40 pumps per second. When the skid is over and the wheels are rolling again, the system automatically returns braking control to the pedal...
Total enrollment in the summer school will be close to 4800, Crooks said, of which 1/4 will be regular winter students. About 48 per cent of the student body will be women...