Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flown. Further, there has been a drop in the number of bomb loads that had to be jettisoned by U.S. flyers in order to combat pursuing MIGs, now considerably less in evidence. > In the South, Viet Cong strength is dropping. Recruitment, once thought to be adding 7,000 men per month to guerrilla ranks, is now estimated to be running at only 3,500. One result has been a decline in terrorist incidents from 2,700 to 1,700 a month. While estimates of either side's effective control over the populace have always been suspect, the Administration figures...
Freelancers can only agree that the money isn't as plentiful as it used to be -and therein lies another source of tension. The New York Times Magazine pays $400 per article. Harper's and Atlantic Monthly pay anywhere from $250 to $750; Esquire offers $1,000 for the average job by the average freelancer. The standard fees of Playboy, Ladies' Home Journal, McCall's and Holiday are around $2,000. Even leaving aside special deals with the likes of Svetlana Allilueva and Theodore White, LIFE pays best-anywhere from about...
...part, Reuther insisted that wages must "reflect productivity," refused to budge on his money demands unless Ford agreed to turn over to him its figures on output per man-hour. It was largely Reuther's desire to get this information that inspired him to make an eleventh-hour appeal to submit the dispute to arbitration. A three-man panel, Reuther suggested, would impose a binding settlement after taking into account "productivity and profitability," as well as "the equity received by Ford executives and stockholders." Dismissing such considerations as "beyond the scope of collective bargaining," Chief Ford Negotiator Malcolm Denise...
...output by 12% (to a record 9,400,000 bbls. a day in August) to help meet Western Europe's needs, the U.S. now faces a problem of oversupply. One result was an order last week by the Texas Railroad Commission, which cut the maximum allowable output per well from 54% to 46.7% of capacity. By December, oilmen expect that the limit will shrink to its pre-crisis norm...
...muted colors and black-on-black stripes. "I'm just making the last paintings anyone can make," he said. Critics long tended to dismiss his grail as more void than essence, yet in recent years the art world rewarded his search with fame and up to $15,000 per canvas...