Word: rationalization
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...Greek Cypriot terrorists. Backbenchers in Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Tory Party muttered that Britain's liberal Governor on Cyprus, Sir Hugh Foot, should be replaced by a military Governor-someone like stern Sir Gerald Templer, who used such collective-punishment measures as cutting the rice ration of villagers in Malaya to make them inform on Communists...
...Getting to grips with the bastards," Major General Kenneth Darling, Britain's tough-talking Cyprus operations chief, called it. Declared he: "Any Englishman who wants a gun may have one. But he must know how to use it. They're not a ration of potatoes." At a tent set up on an unused garbage dump outside the island's capital, Nicosia, British civilians lined up to receive .38 revolvers after demonstrating on a nearby target range that they could hit a life-sized tin terrorist at 15 ft. "You're unlikely to need more," one instructor...
...Vicki Mariles is two years under the official minimum age for international competition, was competing only by courtesy of a special dispensation from the Fédération Equestre Internationale. But Mariles is no ordinary name in international horsemanship. Her father, Brigadier General Humberto Mariles, 45, is one of the world's great horsemen, helped make Mexico a power in the equestrian world. For long, toilsome hours Vicki and her older brother Humberto Jr., now 18, worked under their father's exacting eye to master Mariles' jumping style, in which the rider stays firmly...
...supplement to table scraps, dog owners have bought pet food ever since the late 1920s, when Gaines Meal first sold its dry mix of meat and grain and Ken-L-Ration produced a canned horsemeat mixture. More dogs are fed by the dry foods-Gaines (General Foods), Ralston Purina Dog Chow, Alber's Friskies (Carnation Co.), Gro-Pup (Kellogg Co.). But more poundage is sold in canned "wet" varieties, which made up 65% of the total dog-food weight bought last year, outsold every canned vegetable, used more tin cans than any other product outside of oil and beer...
Sell Mamma. "But the problem dog food manufacturers still face," says Rival Executive Vice President Joseph Getlin, "is getting across to the housewife-not the dog-the advantages of a nutritious single food." Some vets also disagree with the unvarying ration theory, and at least one company (Laddie Boy) is coming out with such varying dishes as whale meat, hash and eggs. But most big canners still insist that the one-dish menu is right; all have big experimental kennels where they constantly check their formulas on kennels of fine dogs. Says Pard Division Head Clarence M. Olson: "If humans...