Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strength in Silences. For the past few years, friends and critics alike have waited impatiently for Malraux's own assessment of his career. Last year his first wife, Clara, beat him to the punch by publishing her version of their early years together. "But her picture of the thoroughgoing "misogynist," whose early rebellion had "reserved areas that he could define as it suited him, or according to his own advantage," served largely as a reminder that it was Malraux's version that was really needed...
...eleventh-hour effort to save the President's $3.37 billion foreign aid bill from its knife-wielding critics, House Speaker John McCormack took to the floor last week to plead the Administration's case. "This is the time when we should continue with strength," he urged. "This is not a time for us to evidence weakness...
Since President Johnson authorized 45,000 more servicemen for Viet Nam -to bring total troop strength there to 525,000 by next July-Congressmen have questioned whether the men can be supplied without jeopardizing U.S. commitments elsewhere or mobilizing the reserves. The answer, says the Pentagon, is that indeed they...
...been replaced by stainless steel. Brazed joints that withstand temperatures approaching 1,600° F. have been substituted for soldered joints that melt at 360° F. Coolant pipelines, which service electronic components and can release flammable glycol when ruptured, have been "armor-plated" at joints with high-strength epoxy. Should the joints come open, the epoxy serves as a back-up seal. Along Apollo's 15 miles of electrical wiring, circuit-breaker panels have been fireproofed with twelve coats of Ladicote paint, newly developed by North American. Bundles of wire, previously exposed to dangerous scuffing and wear during...
Even as the indicators pointed toward resurgence, there was talk of tempering the upswing to avoid inflation. Prices generally have been rising, and last week Bethlehem Steel Corp. announced that it was hiking the base price of hot-rolled carbon and high-strength plate by $4 a ton. The specter of inflation has long worried the Johnson Administration and, in fact, is the main reason it gives for requesting a 10% tax surcharge on individuals and corporations. Last week, at the House Ways and Means Committee hearings on the proposal (see THE NATION), many Congressmen seemed determined to resist higher...