Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another development yesterday, Cambridge city employees won themselves a salary increase of 10 per cent. The highest pay scale of regular patrolmen and firemen was increase slightly more than 10 per cent to keep Cambridge abreast of increases in Boston...
...wrong objective. The stated purpose of intramural athletics has always been "athletics for all." The purpose of this program should be to give anyone who is interested an opportunity to participate in organized team sports. This is no longer the case. Instead, it has degenerated into a small-scale junior varsity, and it has become a showcase for star athletes who did not make the big time...
Would he really do it? "France will look twice before making a fatal move," declared Le Monde, pointing out that thanks to the Treaty of Rome, French industrialists have broken with a long tradition of protectionism and have been building industrial strength on a multinational scale-the only way to meet American competition. Yet Premier Georges Pompidou was quoted by friends as saying, "Nous partirons." He could of course be talking of a limited departure-perhaps absence from sessions of The Six for a few weeks...
...conferences in the presidential palace continued almost without a break for 48 hours as the military revolt spread across the country. Finally, rather than risk a full-scale civil war, Victor Paz Estenssoro, 57, President of Bolivia, climbed into his bulletproof Cadillac lor a tire-screeching ride to La Paz's El Alto Airport. There, pale and somber, he followed his beautiful wife Maria Teresa, 32, and four children aboard a military C-47 and flew off to exile in Lima, Peru. The camera of the lone photographer who snapped the departure was seized by an air force officer...
...businessmen did not wait for the Federal Government. They organized themselves into the Citizens Council on City Planning. Bacon and Architect Oscar Stonorov mounted an elaborate display of their notions for reconverting downtown Philadelphia in a complete-scale model with animated parts. The exhibit drew 385,000 people when put on display at a downtown department store. Bacon personally visited 13 public schools and encouraged schoolchildren to work up models of how they would like their local district to look. Result was a climate of enthusiasm for improvement and change that ranged through the whole community, from self-interested businessman...