Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United Nations, despite a concert between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., can not possibly settle this conflict alone. India regards the creation of a peace-keeping force as the first step towards a plebiscite, and thus has refused to allow more than the present fifty men to patrol the thousand mile border. Shastri can lose nothing by remaining obstinate, and may gain American support for his insistence on keeping the status...
Private industry is also stepping up its spending. Volkswagen is laying out $100 million to double its plant capacity, and Ford is investing $30 million to enable its truck and tractor factory to assemble automobiles as well. Alcoa has set up a pilot company as the first step toward establishing a $51 million aluminum works. The most hopeful investment field is in petrochemicals, where the government recently broke the long-held monopoly of state-owned Petrobras to attract more efficient private companies. Some ten corporations, including Jersey Standard, Gulf, and Phillips Petroleum, are now actively studying the investment possibilities. Brazil...
Carlos Lacerda, governor of Guanabara, and Magalhaes Pinto, governor of Minas Gerais, have both been running hard to become President of Brazil in 1966 when Castello Branco is scheduled to step down...
Radcliffe has taken a much-needed step by contracting with Harvard for University police protection. Although many of the details of the new system have not yet been specified, it is apparent that it will greatly improve both the quality and quantity of protection afforded Cliffies. Under the plan, incidents of attacks on streets surrounding the quadrangle should be substantially reduced...
...between 55 and 60, the college should find it hard to justify breaking a formal contract and dropping an employee in the middle of October. Radcliffe has done a fine job in increasing the protection in and around its living area. It would be a shame to sully this step by implementing it with a complete disregard for the people directly involved. The college should at least provide employment until next June--with comparable wages--for the three remaining workers...