Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many of the neutrals abandoned any pretense of judging the cold war, pushed their own pet projects. The Congo's Vice Premier Antoine Gizenga. arriving late with Premier Adoula, claimed the floor in violation of the rule that only heads of delegations could speak, used it to subtly pump up his own prestige as Patrice Lumumba's spiritual heir. Equally busy was the F.L.N.'s new Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda, who succeeded in persuading Afghanistan, Cambodia. Ghana and Yugoslavia to extend formal recognition to his provisional Algerian government...
...ordering his ministers to work out less drastic administrative measures for cooling off Japan's overheated boom. And he stoutly denied that the mounting balance-of-payments deficit poses any real threat to Japan's economic health. Says Ikeda blandly: "It is just part of priming the pump...
...five years of family camping (mostly weekends, I admit) solitude is harder and harder to find each year. We are so grateful for the rare areas that allow primitive camping (box toilets and a pump) and an opportunity not to hear your neighbor snore and his baby cry. Acreage is what we need more of, not hot water and electric power...
...Showers. If packing, is no problem, or if the family requires more comfort while in the throes of facing the wilderness, get a portable gas stove, grub box, cots, air mattresses, an air pump for the mattresses (one model gets its puffs from the automobile exhaust pipe), charcoal grill, folding toilet ($11.95) and canvas bathtub ($17.50). If the car battery is in good shape, the camper can also load up a small refrigerator, tent heater, fluorescent lamp, electric smoker for chicken, and coffee maker-all of which can be wired like an umbilical cord into the dashboard cigar lighter...
Loading Up. If he is wise, the camper with a new tent will set it up first in his own backyard, cook a little something on his stove, light his lantern and pump up his air mattress. "Everyone should do his staff work before he starts out," says Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Lemuel Garrison. "Too many people think they have inherited Daniel Boone's knowledge as well as his spirit. They haven...