Word: transportation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trying to preserve his nonaligned stance, he insisted that he did not want to join any military alliance and that India would pay for the weapons some time in the future. Both the U.S. and Britain played along. After loading at arms depots in West Germany and Turkey, U.S. transport planes headed for India with automatic weapons, heavy mortars and mountain howitzers. British transports brought in Bren and Sten guns. France promised arms and helicopters. In New Delhi, U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Galbraith hailed the airlift of arms, but warned, "I hope no one will imagine they will work magic...
...action program," as the Eurocrats call their accelerated plan, proposes that the Common Market nations start next month on the complex task of coordinating social welfare schemes. In time, to equalize opportunity, the Six-plus Britain and other likely members-will standardize antitrust laws, transport rates, wage levels, and business and consumer taxes. Still more ambitious are the Common Market's plans to draw up a "single economic budget for the whole Community" and to "orchestrate" all its investment, production, consumption and credit patterns, starting in 1964. As a momentous first step, individual nations' budget and growth estimates...
...Choice. Stashinsky's bedevilment began innocently enough. In the summer of 1950, he was riding home on the train from Lvov, where he was studying to be a mathematics teacher, when he was picked up by Soviet transport police for traveling without a ticket. Stashinsky, the son of a poor peasant in a nearby village, was relieved when police let him go after merely asking some questions...
...black sounds that supplements (and stomps on) mere form and technique in art--especially in Spanish art. "The arrival of the Duende... gives a sense of refreshment unknown till then, together with that quality of the just-opening rose, of the miraculous, which comes and instills an almost religious transport." Blood Wedding, I would imagine, expects the daemon to emerge in the performance...
...Sixth Fleet-all for next to nothing. On top of that, he hit the British for 1,000 paratroopers and the French for 2,000 regulars-at the height of the crisis in Algeria. When Zanuck needed a train to blow up, he got one. To transport his troops he assembled a large fleet of Jeeps, tanks and halftracks, plus an impressive personal navy of assorted landing craft. Suddenly Darryl the Great, as his minions know him, was the ninth strongest military power in the world. Zanuck himself modestly admits: "My job was even tougher than...