Word: size
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freelance writer and gadfly. Perhaps the greatest loss was Morris, who headed for New York in 1963, wrote North Toward Home and became the youngest editor in Harper's century-long history. Its liveliest writers gone, its sting vanished, the Observer piled up greater deficits, reduced its size and published only fortnightly editions...
...ground as rain. Even if no precipitation occurs, the reduction of the number of droplets in the air alone improves visibility. Other chemicals, called surfactants, push the fog-clearing process along by relaxing the droplets' surface tension, the contracting tendency that helps give them their particular size and shape...
...boss said) coupled with Daley's long-announced retirement in '71, a New Politics coalition of urban blacks (like Chicago Alderman Raney), white suburban liberals (like North Shore party leader Williams), and down-state forces (like Richard Mudge of Edwardsville) is a serious possibility. A liberal coalition of such size could force major concessions from what is left of the machine. This fall McCarthy forces are fighting a hopeless battle against Sen. Dirksen for liberal William Clark, a Daley choice who turned dove against his master's will an dlost the Mayor's financial support. The race gives the liberals...
Spoiling Tactics. General Abrams has abandoned the tactics of his predecessor, General William Westmoreland, who made wide use of brigade and even division-size sweeps that sometimes left rear areas exposed. Instead, Abrams has developed a more flexible, diversified approach that employs smaller roving units. They can watch over more territory and thus spot and spoil enemy buildups in the making. Another hopeful sign: the South Vietnamese army has steadily improved throughout the summer, and its combat units are now fully equipped with U.S. M16s...
...transit system. Utah's revenues of $1 13.3 million and earnings of $16,543,000 last year resulted from such diverse and far-flung sources as real estate sales on California's Monterey Peninsula, mining operations in Peru, Australia and Canada, and a fleet of nine super-size ore and oil carriers, to which three new 128,000-ton ships will soon be added...