Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cubans have only hungry, depressing things to talk about these days-more crop failures, still tighter rationing, and a brutal hurricane that took at least 1,200 lives and left an estimated $500 million damage. Last week, faced by his devastated people, Fidel Castro tried to give them something else to talk about by finding a new cause against the U.S. In two separate TV talkathons, Castro spun an Eric Ambler tale of arms smuggling, sabotage raids and mystery ships, and accused the U.S. of waging "an undeclared war" on Cuba...
...week's end, the battle lines grew steadily tighter, and Brazil was rapidly running out of peaceful solutions. A tired-eyed Goulart, weary from worry and no sleep, was maneuvering feverishly and unpredictably-not at all like the old pro of a few months ago. Throughout the country there was an air of desperation. History, as one Brazilian newspaper said, was being written by the minute...
...RUMANIA has the highest industrial growth rate in Europe (16% annually) and, except for Albania, pays its workers the least (per capita income: $135 a year). Bucharest eagerly cultivates Western traders to supply the latest machinery for its new steel and petrochemical plants; at home political discipline is tighter than ever. When Rumanians last year flocked to see Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment, the regime tried to offset its popularity by distributing leaflets explaining that the movie was really about decadence in New York City...
During the next few days, tension wound tighter in Cambridge. Gunshots rang out in the night. Negro and white mobs glared at each other in the streets. Late in the week demonstrators again descended upon Dizzyland. This time Fehsenfeld was not standing in the doorway, and a few demonstrators walked inside. "You are not wanted in here," cried Fehsenfeld. "Understand, you come in here at your own risk." Then he locked his door. The demonstrators looked around-and got a grim surprise. Waiting in the restaurant were more than a dozen white toughs. They charged into the demonstrators and beat...
...billion. Nearly half the cut came out of the manned space flight program, which includes the lunar landing project. The committee also voted to reduce the amount of money that NASA is permitted to shift around among its various programs-plain notice that the committee plans to exercise tighter control on NASA's spending in the future...