Word: quarterly
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...Queen, Elizabeth II. Hers is a task much in contrast to the imperial role of her grandparents (later George V and Queen Mary) when they toured India in 1905 (see cut). Now the prides, loyalties and sympathies that Canadians feel are shared, in some degree at least, by the quarter of the earth's population that belongs to the Commonwealth of Nations. An explanation of the great political invention called the Commonwealth and a definition of the historically new job that Elizabeth has in reigning over it will be found in this week's HEMISPHERE cover story...
...bigger, richer and more populous than that fabulous Empire welded together by the strong-willed ministers of her great-great-grandmother. Victoria. Born of a snug union of Britain and Dominions of European stock, it now has hundreds of millions of brown, black and yellow men. It covers one quarter of the earth's land mass, contains one-fourth of the world's people, and carries on within its confines one-third of the world's trade...
...many times did previous French officials overoptimistically declare that the war was in its "last quarter-hour" that now, when optimism is plainly more justified, it is more soberly put. But time is proving De Gaulle's greatest ally in Algeria. Faced with increasing military pressure and declining Moslem support, the F.L.N. seems uncertain whether to respond with heightened terrorism or to try political persuasion of its own. With fanfare this week, the rebels released a young Frenchwoman, Marie-José Serio, whose mother had made a direct appeal to the F.L.N.'s sense of humanity...
...next Hovercraft to be built, said Chief Designer Richard Stanton-Jones, will weigh 40 tons and carry 80 passengers at 100 m.p.h. Large Hovercraft should need only one-quarter the horsepower required by airplanes of comparable weight, and be able to carry twice the payload. They can start their voyages on land, require only a reasonably level shore...
...sharp employment push was also helped by the fact that new plant and equipment expenditures, another area of economic lag during the recovery, are starting to pick up. First-quarter spending was at the rate of only $30.6 billion, but the second-and third-quarter forecast is for a rate of $32.3 billion and $33.4 billion, both well above last year's $30.5 billion...