Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clouds. Covering the booby-trapped countryside in every kind of conveyance from Lambrettas to Land Rovers, they dig sewers and teach hygiene, plant crops and harvest friendship, build schools and instruct Vietnamese in carpentry or masonry in the process. Often they have to overcome U.S. red tape and age-old Vietnamese traditions along the way. One I.V.S.er, 28-year-old Paul Lukitsch of Milwaukee, discovered a U.S. AID-provided wheat thresher that the Vietnamese, ignorant of its workings, had not even uncrated. After "liberating" the machine, Lukitsch modified it for rice harvesting in the Delta, and reduced the threshing time...
...Nicholai has only begun to process the data from his massive six-year, unsponsored study. He has finished computer runs on five or six of 93 variables. More than one striking discovery has already come out of the project, which promises to increase in significance for Harvard undergraduates as he runs more variables...
With their own vehicle for racial advancement, wealthy Negroes will be able to demonstrate, however belatedly, that the road to equality lies through due process of law-not, as Adam Clayton Powell would have it, through defiance...
...trade delegation from the black African nation of Malawi with full honors (including limousines driven by white chauffeurs), entertained Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan of the tiny new state of Lesotho at lunch in Cape Town's stately Mount Nelson Hotel-breaking at least three apartheid restrictions in the process. Last week Vorster's government announced that it will grant limited autonomy to a tribal area in South West Africa known as Ovamboland, thus making at least one hesitant concession to United Nations demands that it get out of the entire territory...
...underestimated both the demand and costs for its 90-plus passenger, twin-jet DC-9. Labor and parts shortages snarled production lines, and as a result Douglas lost at least $600,000 on each DC-9 it delivered last year, ended 1966 some $27 million in the red. That process nearly exhausted the patience of the eight banks that were providing it with operating funds. They cut off Douglas' $100 million credit lifeline just as the company realized it would need $300 million more to squeeze through...