Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...money. Diane has dropped plans to enlarge their kitchen and add another room to the house because "it probably would cost something like $2,000." They do not feel that they can even protect themselves against illness by continuing Blue Cross coverage. "Six years ago, we paid $50 a quarter; now it's $95," says Diane. "We just had to cancel out and quit thinking about what will happen if one of us gets seriously sick...
...Pacific," its most vital staging area for operations from Korea to Viet Nam. A bustling bastion just 500 miles southeast of Shanghai, it is honeycombed with 91 military installations accommodating 45,000 U.S. troops, It is also, however, a growing threat to harmonious U.S.-Japanese relations. A quarter-century after the war, the continued rule of 1,000,000 citizens of Okinawa and the 140 other islands of the Ryukyu chain by a U.S. military commander is a constant source of irritation to both the islanders and the Japanese. Both want political control of the chain returned to Tokyo...
...SEATO exercises when its boilers became overstrained. Until last week, the worst mishap had occurred in 1964. Freshly fitted and equipped, Melbourne went to sea and collided with H.M.A.S. Voyager. (This collision was determined later to have been the destroyer's fault.) The repairs cost a quarter of a million dollars. Four months ago, after a year at dockside and a refitting that cost more than $8 million, Melbourne was scraped by a Japanese freighter, crushing a gun platform and demolishing a 40-mm. cannon...
...across the Normandy field, gazing somberly upon the long, orderly rows of white crosses that mark the American cemetery near Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer. From Cherbourg to Le Havre, thousands of survivors of the Allied forces returned to the Continent last week to recall their roles on Dday, a quarter of a century ago. Lord Lovat, the commando leader, and General Sir Richard Gale, the British airborne commander, were back in uniform to commemorate the day. U.S. General James ("Jumpin' Jim") Gavin, now a corporate executive and persistent Viet Nam critic, chose to sit quietly...
Traditionally, high prices reflect a short supply of cattle. This year the mechanism of the market has been snarled by increasing affluence. With disposable income up 6% from last year, Americans are indulging in their longstanding love of beef. In the first quarter of this year, 6% more steers have been marketed than in the equivalent period of 1968, yet consumer demand for red meat is rising even faster. At current rates, Americans this year will eat an average of 110 Ibs. of beef each, compared with...