Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McKeon opened the conversation by saying he had a 'couple of packages.'" Jones related McKeon's offer just as Wagner had, adding: "I said, 'It hardly seems to be worthwhile. Anything you said is of no interest to me.' " Using a commission-provided scale drawing of the meeting site, complete down to the sofa pillows, Jones described where each of the participants had sat. He recalled that McKeon had perched on a radiator, which moved Grumet to inquire: "Was this the hot seat...
...left behind. The mere fact that he happened, said Historian Will Durant, "silences the grumbling of a thousand pessimists." Said Adlai Stevenson: "Like the grandeur and power of masterpieces of art and music, Churchill's life uplifts our hearts and fills us with fresh revelation of the scale and reach of human achievement." Yet, he concluded, "our world is thus the poorer, our political dialogue diminished and the sources of public inspiration run more thinly for all of us. There is a lonesome place against...
...popular as "an old Communist way of making people work-romantic but not practical." Many others -including U.S. Ambassador J. Wesley Jones-are impressed by Belaunde's vision. "Everything the President has suggested makes sense," says Jones. "The question is only where to put what on the scale of priority...
...longest urban land boom in U.S. history, the price of land around the fringes of growing cities has risen anywhere from 100% to 2,000% in the past ten years. With freeways opening up exurban spaces, land development is not only spreading farther from downtown but growing in scale. The old-style developer, rich in imagination but thinly financed, can scarcely afford to participate today, at least not without wealthy partners. As long as the tax rules make real estate an enticing way to cash in on the population boom, more and more well-heeled corporations are likely to take...
...site of a Ford tractor plant. Taking advantage of Belgium's low duties on imported auto parts, G.M. will assemble its Opels from parts imported from West Germany and its Vauxhalls from parts made in its British plants. Eventually, G.M. may shift its Antwerp plant to full-scale manufacturing...