Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problems to live on snake meat in Florida's Everglades, cross open country on a run (about five miles every 40 minutes). Sent to tactical units, the Rangers are under orders to set up five-week courses of similar toughness throughout the Army, will soon introduce a new standard physical-fitness test for basic trainees. ARMY AT THE READY...
...Assembly, the Algerian and Saharan representation is so large (67 members) that the mushy North African dish couscous has become a standard plat du jour in the Assembly restaurant. Deputies were eager to debate the progress of the costly, unsettled Algerian war. Imperiously, Premier Michel Debre declared that there would be no debate on foreign policy, at least before the Big Four foreign ministers' meeting next week, or on Algeria, and under De Gaulle's Fifth Republic constitution, which Lawyer Debre devised. Premier Debre had his way. Complained ex-Premier Robert Schuman: "I wonder if we Deputies have...
...Committee of 21"-delegates from the U.S. and its 20 neighbor republics of the hemisphere-met in Buenos Aires last week to talk once again of Latin American economic development. To the U.S., the Latin American spokesmen said in effect: The gulf between your standard of living and ours is so broad that it threatens liberty and democracy in our countries. The U.S. reply: We deplore the gap, and last year sent $736 million in aid to close it. But you must help by showing some of the initiative that enabled our 13 original colonies to build from poverty...
...Rumble. Aside from the problem of keeping Liberal and Conservative hands off the pistols, Lleras faces the inevitable beginning of grumbling among the havenots. Some 5,000,000 Colombians live in hunger, another 6,000,000 barely manage to cling to the lower fringes of an adequate living standard, while an elite 4.6% of the population has 40% of the national income. Spearheaded by a small but boisterous band of Communists and abetted by students, Bogota's hungry took to the streets in March to protest a bus-fare increase from 1.87? to 3?. For hours, they pelted soldiers...
...General Motors $1.03 $ .65 Chrysler 1.75 1.74 (loss) Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) .78 .72 Westinghouse Electric Corp. .81 .73 Brunswick-Balke-Collender...