Word: size
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state of siege under which the U.S. defense community finds itself is no passing thing. Important segments of Congress and the public are increasingly vocal in their criticism of the size, influence and performance of the military and its industrial suppliers (TIME cover, April 11). Last week the tarnish on Pentagon brass spread even further with the disclosure that the Air Force had falsified reports about the price of the C-5A transport plane under production by the Lockheed Aircraft Corp...
...officials (and their wives) to Airlie House in Virginia. The purpose of the self-study was to seek ways of cutting the $80 billion defense budget and work out new procedures for keeping future spending in check. Strategists are also considering the possibility of shrinking the armed forces' size by about 1,000,000 men over the next three years. There are now 3,400,000 in uniform...
...area with an exceptional fiction section. The selection looks like the natural, obvious one for a student community, but--and this is the book store manager's big headache--there are at present "67,000 paperbacks in print," and the next book listing them all will probably double in size. In the limited space of one book store, someone has to do a lot of choosing and picking. Reading International has done a good...
...cigar still moist from the humidor, and he answers questions in a matter of fact way. He is broad and tall, perhaps six feet, but he appears even taller, without being overwhelming. He has an impressive head of grey-black-white hair, combed straight back. And, for all his size, he has that cultured look of American aristocracy. If you catch his face from just the right angle, a side view from behind the ear, there is a trace of John Lindsay. You can see how Styron supported McCarthy but not Robbert Kennedy...
...such places as Australia, South Africa and South America. As a result, Detroit has been putting pressure on Washington to force open the Japanese market in two ways. U.S. automen want Japan to lower such nontariff barriers as commodity sales taxes and road-use taxes based on car size. More important, they insist that Tokyo should ease its severe restrictions against foreign investment in Japanese manufacturing firms. General Motors Chairman James Roche recently called Japan "the most notorious" of the world's industrial countries for this form of protectionism. Veiled threats of retaliation-perhaps including import restrictions on Japanese...