Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Another version of this scheme was publicized last week in the New York Times's letters column. The proposal, jointly forwarded by Harvard University's chief seismologist and by a Harvard government student, had some weird aspects. It would require the U.S. and Russia to deposit $5 billion apiece with the World Bank, as a sort of good faith deposit against discovery of an illegal underground blast within their boundaries. The evidence would come from many unmanned seismic recorders in sealed boxes scattered throughout the two countries. On every Wednesday (why this must...
Despite the confused reports concerning the recent fighting on the Sino-Indian border, one thing is clear: the Chinese have been planning their offensive for some time. The skill and effectiveness with which they deployed their troops over rugged Himalayan terrain indicates a carefully prepared battle scheme...
...film is confusing, and war's natural confusion is compounded. For want of legible maps, for want of sensible continuity, the spectator fails to grasp the operation as a whole: he often does not know where in hell or Normandy he is or why in the general scheme of things he is there. Worst of all, the film is dishonest. Though it is superficially true to the facts as Ryan reports them, it is fundamentally false to the spirit of the events. Most of the time, Zanuck shamelessly sugars his bullets-men die by the thousands...
...approach that the committee will adopt has not yet been decided nor has the group had its first formal session. Gill and Doty plan to confer together before the end of this week in order to schedule meetings and set up a tentative organizational scheme...
...will fall on the people of the U.S.-as taxpayers and consumers. Under the Alliance for Progress, the U.S. is already committed to $20 billion worth of support over the next ten years. Reversing a position of long standing, the U.S. has also agreed to take part in a scheme designed to support coffee prices. It may now be asked to do the same for such other Latin American commodities as cacao, lead and zinc...