Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...substitute proposal, which would exempt individual homeowners and owners of dwellings with four units or less. A principal feature of the substitute clause is that it would permit other owners to make two discriminatory transactions in a single year, but would make a third such sale illegal; large-scale real estate operators would thus find it difficult to segregate big apartments or tracts. Almost apologetically, Committee Chairman Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn noted afterward: "All good legislation is the result of compromise. The bill without the Mathias amendment would be like having a wine cellar without a corkscrew...
...Midwest Governors Conference in Cincinnati, he told reporters that President Johnson "made a great mistake by getting involved in a large-scale land war" and that "we are in the process of making a second mistake by making it primarily an American war." He proposed "an honorable settlement" but did not suggest how one could be achieved. In fact, he maintained, "I don't think you can bring the North Vietnamese to the bargaining table by showing them they...
...went so smoothly on the economic and scientific front that there was time in that session to return to world-scale questions. On Viet Nam, De Gaulle and Brezhnev found it enough to agree that neither Red China nor the U.S. should ultimately win the war and occupy the country. Both concurred in their oft-stated demands for "respect for the 1954 Geneva Accords" and establishment of an independent Viet Nam, "sovereign and free of all foreign intervention." Brezhnev, softening from his rigid position of the previous day, proposed another session on politics at the end of De Gaulle...
...tiny as crickets. The whole craft was only 27 ft. shorter than a football field. Gleaming white against the backdrop of a gloomy hangar at Burbank, Calif., the behemoth was shown off for the first time this week by Lockheed Aircraft Corp. It is a $1,000,000 full-scale mockup of the Lockheed 2000, the plane that the company hopes will become the nation's first supersonic passenger transport...
...year's second quarter ends this week, and for savings and loan associations that is a time when depositors are tempted to pocket their quarterly dividends and then pull out their mon ey. To prevent wide-scale withdrawals and to attract funds for mortgages, Los Angeles' Home Savings and Loan Association, the nation's biggest, boosted the rate on regular passbook accounts from 5% to 5¼% , and on longer, 36-month savings to 5¾% . Other S & Ls followed suit but may be squeezed for profits at these rates because many are less efficient than Chairman...