Word: railings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...printing plants, but prefers contract arrangements with local firms-the latest being New Zealand Newspapers, Ltd. in Auckland. Until now, the magazines were flown 1,629 miles from Melbourne, Australia, but henceforth, 35,000 copies will be printed in Auckland, then shipped by air and rail to other points-passing through towns with such colorful Maori names as Te Awamutu, Taumarunui and Ohakune. We expect our New Zealand subscribers to get TIME at least two days earlier...
Liberman admits as much. "It is clear that, at first, shortcomings will turn up in the course of practical application; that people will surely rail at the system and its authors, and that people will say it must be abolished and thrown out immediately," he told a group of fellow economists. "I foresee all this, but if we economists work together in a united front, go through the painful period of the introduction of the new system together and do not panic, we will be performing a good service in building the technical base of Communism...
...Maryland's Senator Daniel Brewster, Pennsylvania's Senator Joe Clark, Commerce Secretary John Conner, Louisiana's Congressman Hale Boggs, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, Postmaster General John Gronowski and Minnesota Governor Karl Rolvaag. He delighted the crowd when he helped hoist Margaret Truman Daniel over the rail at her box and took her for a brief spin on the floor...
...balks at union demands for yet another raise. Facing elections in March for provincial legislatures and one-third of the national Congress, Illia wants to use the money to meet the payroll of other government workers so they will not go to the polls mad. The rail unions have struck three times in the past five weeks in short walkouts, and now threaten a 72-hour tie-up-all of which should add a few more millions to the government's deficit...
...Buying a hound is somewhat cheaper than buying a race horse (promising pups sell for $1,000 up), and far less chancy: unlike the ponies, greyhounds breed so true that handlers can predict the habits of a pup with a fair degree of accuracy. "If you breed two good rail runners," says Florida Trainer Oscar Duke, "at least six out of eight pups will be rail runners...