Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British opponents of the Common Market on both the Left and the Right who have bitterly complained that the Macmillan government was rushing Britain into Europe with undue haste. Moreover, the deadlock could be interpreted by the Commonwealth Prime Ministers, who will confer in London next month, as heartening proof of Britain's intention to stand firm on behalf of Commonwealth interests and to hold out for the best possible terms...
Although many nations are behind in paying their regular annual share of costs (approximate total arrears: $5,000,000), the really critical deficit involves members' deliberate decisions not to pay "special assessments." Because they dislike U.N. operations in the Congo and the Middle East, voted by the veto-proof General Assembly, the Communist bloc has refused to pay its share of the annual $140 million price of troubleshooting in those areas. For their own political reasons, France, Belgium and most of the Arab states will not ante up for one or the other of these assessments. The $200 million...
...admitted. But the goal of greatness persisted. Academic standards have been kept high: this year Oxy accepted fewer than half of its applicants, and it looked for more than good College Board test scores (the freshman mean: 615 out of a possible 800). More decisive were written essays and proof of intellectual curiosity. Instead of summer loafing, next fall's incoming freshmen were busy last week perusing a list of prescribed books, from Edith Hamilton's The Greek Way to Western Civilization and Calvin Hall's A Primer of Freudian Psychology to William Golding's Lord...
...gimmicky hyperbole, the stunt was effective proof that news which rates newspaper space includes plenty that never gets on the air. Mailed out to advertisers, clergymen, doctors, lawyers, barbers and beauticians with a letter from Publisher Richard Amberg, the colored copy of the Globe left readers to decide how well informed they could hope to be by relying on radio and television...
Each morning, in his extradition-proof haven of Brazil, Edward Mortimer Gilbert, 38, trudges down to take the sun along Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach...