Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Asphalt barriers, say the M.S.U. men, can double the acreage of rice fields in the food-short countries of Southeast Asia. Used with the new Rockefeller Foundation strain of rice, they might free much of the world from the specter of famine...
...More Strain Than Gain. The draft, and the tendency of more and more students to stay in college to preserve their draft-free status, are heightening the already severe labor shortage. Motorola Corp. Chairman Robert Galvin last week cited the labor squeeze as a prime reason why the company's earnings are expected to drop in this year's second half. To recruit, some companies resort to blind mailings; Automatic Electric Co. recently sent letters to people living near its Chicago plant, asking, "Are you happy with your job?" By contrast, the Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. has more...
...Fudge Factory." The importance of finding a successor to Ball was heightened by the possibility that Secretary of State Rusk, suffering from fatigue and financial strain, may in time decide to step down. Johnson's first choice for Ball's job, and a possible successor to Rusk, was Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford, a former aide of Harry Truman. The bait was rejected by Clifford and other prospects. So L.B.J. decided to worry about Rusk's successor later, settled on the Attorney General...
...knowledge that such bombs would pass over any target only at widely spaced intervals, would be easier to track than ICBMs and could be delivered at best in hardly less time than the 30 minutes needed for an ICBM. Even so, this detente is subject to constant strain; each nation has made clear that, in the event of any breach of the agreement, it could "kill" any bomb put up by the other...
...Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Kohler will handle the Department's relations with the C.I.A. and the Defense Department. He does not have the Asian expertise of Ambassador to Japan U. Alexis Johnson; but he has been a widely-praised envoy to the U.S.S.R. in a time of strain and will be hard to replace in that post...