Word: record
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...drivers are not necessarily beginners. With only 850 examiners to deal with the flood of applications for licenses (last year a record 1,345,832 applied), there is a constant backlog of a quarter-million unlicensed drivers. The L-plate army is growing. In less than two years nearly half the 2,000,000 Britons who took driver's tests flunked them, many for the second and third time. All Britain cheered last month when 39-year-old Derek Brown passed his test: he had been driving with L plates for 22 years and failed twelve previous exams...
Proving that "order and democracy are perfectly reconcilable" is the prime aim of Venezuela's new government-no small feat with Venezuela's record for jackboot rule. But in Caracas, where Communist-led street mobs stoned Vice President Richard Nixon last spring and rumbled menacingly when their candidate lost a free election in December, the new notion is taking hold. In the squat white building that 16 months ago housed the dreaded cops of ousted Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez' Seguridad National, a branch of the Education Ministry was quietly at work last week...
Called to the witness table, Hauling Hoods Gross, Noonan, Bitz and 28 other witnesses pleaded the Fifth Amendment. But the record was already clear-and so was the lesson. Said Senator McClellan to the Times's Business Manager Amory Bradford: "It's a very sad commentary [when] one of the greatest publications in the country ... is subjected to a situation where the publication can absolutely be closed down unless they pay tribute." Moreover, the publishers did not succeed in purchasing peace: just last December, the Deliverers' union went on strike, kept New York's nine major...
...with a total fission yield of more than 91,000 kilotons. The U.S. and Britain have been responsible for more than two-thirds of it. But the Russians contributed 21,000 of their 25,560-kiloton total in 1957-58 alone, raising the debris in the stratosphere to a record level...
...building, which has been setting record after record, last week reached a new high. So reported the Departments of Labor and Commerce. Total new construction reached $4.2 billion for April, up 13% over last year for the first four months. Private construction, up nearly $400 million over last year to $2.9 billion in April, also reached a new record of $10.7 billion in the first four months, largely helped by a 29% rise in home building over last year. Federal Housing Commissioner Julian Zimmerman predicted 1,284,000 new housing starts...