Word: size
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Confusion. Two months ago, Chan set out from the Burma fields on his way to Laos with a caravan of 300 men and 200 pack horses carrying nine tons of opium. He had no intention of paying the $80,000 in tolls usually collected on a shipment of that size passing through the Chinese generals' territory. When the caravan reached the Mekong River and the Laotian border town of Ban Houei Sai, the Chinese irregulars were waiting...
...system, the original material would be commercially transferred onto a new type of film. Home viewers would then insert cartridges of the film in a breadbox-size playback unit, which would send audio-visual signals into the antenna terminals of the TV set. A seven-inch cartridge, resembling a discus, could play up to 30 minutes in color, an hour in black and white. Now called Electronic Video Recording (EVR), the system may reach the U.S. market...
...those instances where larger size will indeed carry with it greater efficiency, such efficiency will sooner or later be achieved by internal growth...
Wherever they have operated in the Congo, they are known as "the white giants." But for all their fierce reputation, Colonel Jean ("Black Jack") Schramme and his band of white mercenaries are beginning to look a lot less tall. Not that the Congolese army is cutting them down to size; the swaggering "meres" could probably hang on for a while at Bukavu, the old resort town on the Congo's eastern frontier where they holed up three weeks ago. President Joseph Mobutu's regulars are bothering them so little that the only raiding that the mercenaries have been...
Died. General Walter Krueger, 86, commander of the U.S. Sixth Army in World War II (TIME cover, Jan. 29, 1945), a dour, supremely organized tactician who enlisted as a 17-year-old private in the Spanish-American War and commanded every size military unit, from squad to army, in his rise to full general, capping his career with 15 amphibious landings that pushed the Japanese back across the Pacific from New Guinea to the Philippines; of pneumonia; in Valley Forge...