Word: types
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week two French air force generals were in Rio de Janeiro discussing the feasibility of building a Brazilian factory for manufacturing French Mirage-type supersonic fighters. In Argentina, President Juan Carlos Onganía is considering a similar factory that would turn out French-style AMX tanks. Peru, which recently closed a deal with France for twelve Mirage jets, is building a 14,000-ton tanker in order to gain know-how for producing warships. Meantime, in the past year or two, Latin Americans have been adding steadily to their arsenals. From the U.S., Brazil bought 50 M41 light...
...course is designed only for a musician's formative years, at least 100 of Japan's professional violinists have come out of the Suzuki school. So successful is his method that the New England Conservatory, the Eastman School and the Oberlin College Conservatory have started Suzuki-type programs...
...Type A" Type. What had he done wrong? "I came to realize," said Dr. Page, "that I had not been living moderately. I worked hard. I was continually dissatisfied, and I always tried to drive myself harder. Although I've told a thousand audiences not to use stimulants, I was up to ten cups of coffee a day, trying to squeeze the last bit of efficiency out of myself...
...very much worth the reading. The worst examples of the genre present the symptoms of our virulent malady in pure form, and a new Mickey Spillaine is not pleasant going, precisely because it has roughly the same significance as a fresh mass murder. The best books of the type offer symptomology, diagnosis, and like most good physicians (and all great works of art), a tentative prescription for treatment. Among living crime novelists, Ross MacDonald is simply the best of the best...
Fred Leavitt is not the type of man one would ordinarily take for a war criminal. But he works as a job recruiter for the Dow Chemical Corporation, the manufacturer of napalm. One of the demonstrators last Wednesday pushed in front of Leavitt's face a poster with pictures of naked children whose skin had been burned off by napalm. "Aren't you embarrassed? Don't you feel guilty?" the protester asked...