Word: rawe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet offer of $300 million or more worth of credit in hard currency. Dubček will no doubt gladly take the money, but he is also eager to make sure that the Russians do not revert from the carrot to the stick and cut off the oil and raw-material shipments upon which his country depends. As a hedge against any loss of Soviet oil, for example, he is reportedly negotiating with Iran for millions of tons...
...this effluence is infinitely multiplied in big cities-and 70% of Americans live on only 10% of the country's total land area. Every day, New York City dumps 200 million gallons of raw sewage into the Hudson River. Each square mile of Manhattan produces 375,000 lbs. of waste a day; the capital cost of incinerating that 1-sq.-mi.-output is $1.87 million, and 30% of the residue drifts in the air as fly ash until it settles on the citizens...
...political views get in the way of his craft. For that reason, he is genuinely sorry that a politician of such caricaturable assets as L.B.J. is leaving the scene. "Politics aside," he says, "losing Johnson is like losing Khrushchev." That still leaves Hubert Humphrey, of course. Because of the raw material he supplies a cartoonist, Oliphant would like to see him elected President: "It would give me four good years of fun." His last choice for President: Eugene McCarthy, whose patrician, well-chiseled face lacks a single exaggerated feature to exploit. "I'd rather draw him with a blank...
Soft in the Middle. Like an aging athlete whose stomach muscles have turned to flab, U.S. trade shows a soft middle. Exports consist heavily of raw materials (coal, grains and soybeans, for example) and the high-technology output of the world's most research-minded corporations (computers, aircraft, electronics). Between those extremes, chronic trade-balance weakness is suffered by at least 122 manufacturing industries. Among them: steel, paper, food-and-drink, glass, textiles, apparel, lumber, leather, shipbuilding, autos, watches and sporting goods. In 1-966, those 122 provided 35% of the nation's industrial jobs, but they...
Most of the Communist dead have been replaced with new recruits, many of them raw and untrained, who are now being given crash courses in tactics and fire discipline in jungle bivouacs. To remedy their communications problems in the Saigon area, the Communists have redivided the capital's command zones, creating a forward command center near the city and five subcommand posts, all linked by radio network. They have also been busy improving their transportation network, building and surfacing roads in a dozen places, including one within 30 miles of Saigon. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong have been...