Word: rapides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case, progress in U.S.-Soviet military agreements is never rapid. It will probably be even slower in the monumental matter of arms limitation than it was with two earlier and less audacious agreements: the 1963 test-ban treaty and the nuclear nonproliferation treaty initialed in 1968. Each required more than four years of hard bargaining before final agreement was reached, and neither one even began to approach the complexity of the issues on the table for SALT...
...drones in the songs (some of which, like "Cat Scratch Fever," recur in his shows as anthems), in the abruptness of the pacing and in the roller-coaster whirling of the stage machinery. In Job as in Jesus the references, the allusions, the modulations of mood may be too rapid--the whole production too visually and verbally dense--to be digested at one sitting. And it may be, too, that Mayer's profound sense of privacy may forbid him from ever making the more leisurely statements which will make his work more accessible to strangers...
...TIME'S pages. Each week for 50 weeks, TIME will run free of charge a full-page ad and an adjoining column prepared by an agency on any subject of its choosing, whether it be the country, the world, peace, poverty, society, itself. The response has been rapid and abundant. One agency launched a contest among its 13 offices around the world. At another agency, the president decided to make sure of the excellence of its offering by doing it himself...
...convention saw no serious attempts by young militants to take over, the reason was that many young people had already quit. To stop such attrition, the N.A.A.C.P. needs more help from white America. The organization must show that its reasoned approach can still satisfy black ambitions at an acceptably rapid pace. Whether that can be done remains in doubt...
Behind the Store. Why the rapid growth? One major reason, says Arthur Decio, 38, founder, chairman and president of Skyline Corp., of Elkhart, Ind., is that "some years ago, builders just decided to forget about low-income groups. This was our opportunity, and we are trying to make the most of it." Last year Decio's Skyline sold about 30,000 mobile homes and 12,000 travel trailers, more than any other U.S. firm. For the company's fiscal year, which ended May 31, it earned almost $9,000,000 on sales of $180 million, a jump...