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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philippine insurrection in 1899; he climbed a telegraph pole to mend a broken line in a hail of enemy fire. The youngest was Sergeant First Class Jerry K. Crump, 30, who won the medal in Korea when he threw him self over an exploding enemy grenade to save four companions. President Kennedy honored them all as "our most distinguished American citizens...
Switched Allegiance. The U.N. observer team, which will be set up by the former U.N. Congo commander, Swedish Major General Carl Von Horn, is a device to save political face for everyone. Saudi Arabia had already been cutting back on its supply of money and guns to the royalists, largely because Egypt's projected plan for unity with Syria and Iraq made Nasser far too formidable an opponent. The U.N. intervention also gives Nasser a way out of the Yemen mess, which has tied up a third of his army at a cost...
...Tonton Macoute, a kind of disorderly people's thuggery. Three times during the week, U.S. Ambassador Raymond L. Thurston protested to the Haitian government. Just over the horizon stood a U.S. Navy task force, and marines aboard the aircraft carrier Boxer were prepared to land, if necessary, to save the lives of 1,000 U.S. citizens in Haiti. The situation, said Washington, is "delicate and dark...
...early model, which he had built in secret during the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands; and for patients whose kidney failure was only temporary, the contraption was a lifesaver. But it could not keep alive those whose kidneys had failed permanently. In 1951, in a desperate effort to save these patients, Brigham surgeons decided to go ahead and transplant kidneys without waiting for the mysteries of immunity to be dispelled. But all those "unprotected"' transplants eventually failed...
...unique agreement with the Steelworkers union, believing that the best way to keep labor costs reasonable is to peg them to production costs. Last week Kaiser Steel Corp. released the first results of its radical new bonus plan, under which workers divvy up 32.5% of whatever the company saves by cutting costs or increasing productivity. To 3,930 employees went bonuses averaging $79 each for March, when the company was able to save $962,000 against expenses in 1961, the base year. Bonuses ranged from 15% to close to 50% of wages, but averaged 55? an hour...