Word: totals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...riddling the building's facade and shattering windows; their targets turned out to be Russian troops. The soldiers began firing without warning at anyone seen in the streets after the 10 p.m. curfew. In Prague, they killed at least three people and wounded two in one night, bringing the total number of those killed in the capital during the occupation to 20 and the wounded to 300. As many as 30 more may have been killed in the rest of the country...
...elections, the Communists emerged as the country's largest single party. Benes formed a coalition government with them. In 1947, when Benes wanted to accept the U.S. offer of Marshall Plan aid, Stalin said no. Next year, in a Soviet-aided coup, the Czechoslovak Communists seized total power. Czechoslovakia's Western-oriented Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, the son of the country's founder, was killed in a fall from a window in the Foreign Ministry. Many Czechoslovaks believed that it was murder, and saw in his death the demise of their own freedom...
...Arab terrorist organization El Fatah promptly claimed credit for the explosions that brought the total number of such incidents to 14 in two months. Its aim: to unsettle the civilian population and sabotage the modus vivendi between Jews and Arabs in Je rusalem. After a protest strike by the Arab population, normal life returned to Jerusalem. But on the Israeli-Jor danian border, the military hostilities erupted anew. At week's end Israelis and Jordanians were peppering one another across the frontier with small-arms fire...
...scene in many communities put the figure far higher. According to a Los Angeles Times survey of Palos Verdes last week, high schools there "now have a proportion of drug-experienced students which police estimate at 50% and counselors put at 75%. An estimated third of the total are habitual users." Even more astonishing, the Times found, drug use has penetrated down to the sixth grade and does not always stop with pot: a few 13-year-olds are shooting the far more dangerous "speed" (Meth-edrine). Often, with eerie sophistication they insert the hypodermic into the underside of their...
...sales in the early 1960s. In 1967 Scovill bought NuTone Inc., maker of built-in home products. This year it added Caradco, the second largest window-frame producer in the U.S. For an even better balance, Scovill firmly intends to bring down the share of brass to 20% of total sales through future acquisitions...