Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strategic "red envelope" that enfolds the heavy industrial targets around Hanoi and Haiphong, the strikes hit many of the same roads, bridges, ferries and supply dumps that were plastered when the bombing originally started a year ago. Farther south, the ground war was markedly intensified in both scale and determination. More than 25,000 U.S., South Korean and South Vietnamese troops scoured the countryside in six massive operations; one of them, the division-sized "Operation White Wing," was the biggest and possibly the costliest yet mounted in the war (see THE WORLD...
...suggested by the Kiernan report still require financial support. Encouragement of reform from Beacon Hill will mean little if the legislature is unwilling to underwrite the expense of improvement. Public school buildings are deteriorating and teacher salaries, particularly in the western parts of the state, are far below the scale of states with comparable per capita incomes...
...Wandering Birds. The British roam the moors, the heaths and the braes; Swiss and French scale the Alps, while Arab and Hindu plod weary miles to reach Mecca or the Ganges. To the German, however, the act, and not the object of the journey, is what counts. German doctors and orthopedists recommend wandern as good for the heart, lungs, legs and circulation. German sociologists inquire anxiously on questionnaires, "Do you walk with your wife?" -presumably on the theory that togetherness begins along the trail. German scholars account for the national wanderlust with learned references to Goethe and the 19th century...
...Harvard Lampoon greeted the event by publishing a pink and perfumed parody issue of the Harvard Crimson. After a full-scale competition, the "Crime" had picked Radcliffe Junior Linda McVeigh, 19, to be the first girl managing editor in the student paper's 93-year history. "It's pretty hard for the boys to forget I'm a girl," the Cliffie admitted, "but you must be businesslike." Thoroughly upstaged, her boss, new Crimson President Robert Samuelson, said gracefully: "She has great wit; she is a good choice...
Contemplating the glory that is-or should be-France, Charles de Gaulle is sensitive about the fact that his country's businesses, though wealthy enough, are not very large when measured on an international scale. His government has consistently urged French firms to merge and thus come closer in size to the foreign (meaning U.S.) corporate colossi that De Gaulle fears could eventually make France an economic colony...