Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zero Treks. The war took a heavy toll. Finland lost 115,000 men (nearly 3% of its population), also had to pay Russia huge reparations and cede part of its land. The losses taught Finland a lesson. President Urho Kekkonen, now serving his eleventh year in that post, realized that his country must retain the favor of its Soviet neighbor. While this has not meant alliance with the Soviets, it has led to a neutrality that slightly favors them. Kekkonen keeps up his ties with the Russians; few men can boast of having established personal relationships with Stalin, Khrushchev, Kosygin...
West Germany still has trouble keeping her planes in the air. Last week the crash toll of F-104G fighter-bombers-known as Starfighters-rose to 70 when a German navy lieutenant safely ejected after his engine failed near Cologne. The noncombat loss of so many planes compares in military aviation only with the Luftwaffe's own horrendous record in the late 1930s, when it lost 572 aircraft in 1938 alone, including the mass crash of 31 Stuka dive bombers that blindly followed a flight leader through the clouds and smack into the ground...
Suspicion of Arson. By week's end 61 bodies had been recovered, many burned beyond identification. But the toll could reach more than 300, since 250 were still missing. It was, by any count, Brussels' worst fire and the most devastating one worldwide since 323 persons perished in a circus blaze in Brazil in 1961. Brussels Mayor Lucien Cooremans said that it would take a month or so to comb through the tangled debris, which still smoldered days later. Store officials estimated the property loss at $23 million...
...penny-pinching city council, which consistently refused to approve funds for new communications equipment, more cars, more men. Where Cincinnati had once paid its police force better than any other major Ohio city, by last year it was paying the least. Over the years, the trouble had taken its toll. In 1961, 5% of the men retired as soon as they became eligible at 52, or simply resigned; by 1965, the number had climbed to 10%. Applicants also fell off. Last year Chief Shrotel, earning $17,400 a year, resigned to take a job (and a $7,600 raise...
...prim past, smoking cigarettes was generally not allowed, and locks were bolted at the toll of 10 p.m. Now all residences provide ashtrays because, as one Y.W. official explains, the girls smoked anyway and burned the furniture; any girl who signs out in the evening can get back in as late as 5 a.m. simply by ringing a buzzer. Although as a rule, men may still not advance above the lobby floor of residences, they have free run of the Y.W.'s recreational areas. The Boston center, which last week held its 100th annual meeting, has even opened...