Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...field, U.S. and South Vietnamese troops scored a series of notable victories against Communist units in the outskirts of Saigon and even more decisively in the A Shau Valley (see THE WORLD). While U.S. losses were running at the rate of some 30 dead per day, the Communists were losing about...
...stronger ones in ascending order. The most closely studied example is the effect of pesticides, which have sharply improved farm crops but also caused spectacular kills of fish and wildlife. In the Canadian province of New Brunswick, for example, the application of only one-half pound of DDT per acre of forest to control the spruce budworm has twice wiped out almost an entire year's production of young salmon in the Miramichi River. In this process, rain washes the DDT off the ground and into the plankton of lakes and streams. Fish eat the DDT-tainted plankton...
...split will help ensure a lively market in its stock by keeping per-share prices within reach of ordinary investors. Lately, that reach had be come a stretch. Long the highest priced issue traded on the New York Stock Exchange, IBM in the past 20 months had swept from $320 to $677.50 by last week's meeting. Even after the split takes effect this week, IBM will still be competing for top-price honors with the Big Board's current second most expensive stock, Corning Glass Works, which closed last week...
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Martin Diskin, professor of Anthropology at M.I.T., read a petition of support that he said was signed by about 20 per cent of the M.I.T. faculty. Also distributed were statements of support by Putnam, Rogers G. Albritton, professor of Philosophy, and Stanley L. Cavell, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value...