Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There comes the rub. Britain has no long-range missile force of its own, canceled one land-based missile project-the 2,000-mile Blue Streak-in favor of a U.S. offer to develop Skybolt and charge Britain only the production costs of the missiles it orders. Since Britain was thereby persuaded to place all its missile hopes in Skybolt, it came as a considerable shock when the U.S. last week threatened to scrub the entire project...
...ready for rehearsals by last October, and wherever he could he sat the youngsters next to the veterans, on the theory that the enthusiasm of one would rub off on the experience of the other. But there is more than seating arrangement to account for the transformation of an assorted group of musicians into a symphony orchestra. Stokowski tunes differently from other conductors: instead of asking the oboe for an A by which the whole orchestra tunes, he asks for an A for woodwinds, a B-flat for the brasses, an A again for the strings. The three sections tune...
Besides ending the football season and boosing the Cambridge liquor merchants into a sort of financial nirvana, Yale Weekend makes it difficult not to rub shoulders with an acquaintance or two from the other place. The other place, actually, creeps into a great many conversations. Sometimes one must not only talk about it, but think about it as well. And the thought of Yale, no matter how distasteful, can bring an abrupt but not unuseful reminder that there are other universities than Harvard, and other ways than Harvard's to prepare undergraduates for the fellowship of educated...
This kind of partnership for productivity has paid healthy dividends. Three years ago, Malaya displaced Indonesia−which had nationalized its rubber plantations−as the world's biggest producer of natural rubber. Last year, producing more than a third of the world's natural rub ber, the Malayan plantations brought in a fourth of the new nation's income. Be cause of rubber, Malayans enjoyed a high (for Asia) per capita income of $113, v. $40 for neighboring Indonesians. And because of this strong economy, Malaya may well be able to expand. Last week Britain agreed...
Kennedy is nonetheless determined to make medicare important in the November elections, hoping that enough of the blame for its defeat will rub off on the Republicans. He is already scheduled to campaign in California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Connecticut, New York and Ohio. But wherever he goes, and whatever he says about medicare, John Kennedy will be hard-pressed to explain why the voters should punish his Republican opponents and continue to support the 21 stalwart Democrats of the Senate who ganged up on him last week...