Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Correspondent Glenn Troelstrup made on-the-spot diagrams of the street fighting. These were air-expressed to New York and translated by Cartographer Vincent Puglisi onto a U.S. Army street map of the city that had been wheedled from Pentagon sources...
...whole) is American-controlled may effectively cut off other traditional middle-class pursuits, Last week, IBM's subsidiary here hired a recent Berkeley graduate. When he reported for work he was told that he would be flown to New York for a month's training. He quit on the spot...
...largest single source of housing credit, that last year they did twice as much business with M.G.I.C. ($860 million) as with the FHA. Unlike the FHA, the Milwaukee firm relies on its 4,500 lender-customers to appraise the value of property it insures, screens out bad risks by spot checks. The company concentrates on loans for city and suburban one-family homes, generally insists on at least a 10% down payment. As a result, its foreclosure rate runs about half that of the FHA, which backs loans made on a mere 3% down payment, and the VA, which guarantees...
Louis Heren, chief Washington correspondent for the Times of London, brings this geriatrics report up to date in a brisk spot checkup on the U.S. political system, loosely paralleling the classic study performed in The American Commonwealth (1888) by another sympathetic Englishman, Lord Bryce. Measured by the age of its continuous governing institutions, Heren judges the U.S. to be the second oldest country in the world; only Britain is its senior. Despite its perpetual self-image of newness, the country is really "a mature, almost ancient land...
Anil Nayar, whose forehand shot has been unofficially clocked at over 100 mph, Larry Terrell, and captain Rick Sterne led yesterday's win with easy 3-0 victories. But Jose Gonzalez, playing in the third spot behind Nayar and Terrell, gave the crowd of 125 some real excitement...