Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peking Laughter. There is one imponderable: China. Even a military demonstration on the Himalayan front would seriously weaken the Indian effort. A Chinese offensive on the scale of their last one in 1962 would be more than India could handle, for New Delhi is barely equipped for a one-enemy war. It could never deal with two at once...
Indian jet fighters streaked from the sky to smash the armored spearhead. Fearful of losing the strategic city of Jammu, the Indian high command ordered the drive on Lahore, removing the battle from Kashmir to Pakistan proper, and changing a brush-fire war into a full-scale challenge. The escalation had increased, and the suspense was over. Whatever else Ayub Khan and Shastri accomplished last week, they had noisily reopened the question of Kashmir...
...month contract without raising prices, stirring Johnson's ire and losing sales to foreign steelmakers and competitive materials such as aluminum, plastics and cement. The steelworkers' Abel, who got elected earlier this year on a promise of plumper contracts, was equally adamant in refusing to scale down his demand...
...House Won." Gambling on a large scale in London is less than five years old, dating from an act of Parliament in 1960 that made legal most forms of gambling for money-in a private club-for the first time in 100 years. The law specified that games played must not have odds favoring the house. So, paying at least lip service to the rule, the bank at roulette and craps and the deal at blackjack are offered to players (although in practice, few individuals feel rich enough to play against the whole table). The clubs, instead of taking...
...organize-as are most white-collar workers. Restless by nature, newsmen are generally unwilling to submit to the discipline of a union shop. Few Guild contracts call for a full union shop, but almost all I.T.U. contracts do. While the Guild has helped to raise the general salary scale, its "minimums" have tended in fact to become "maximums," and many employees are leveled on the same scale...