Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reforms instituted by the Viet Minh. Second, tax and land reforms of a similar character should have been extended to the remainder of the population. Third, trade between the industrial North and the agrarian. South should have been continued, since only Vietnam as a whole constituted a viable economic unit. Politically, the government should have been representative of the overwhelmingly Buddhist and peasant population. Existing parties and religious sections should have been given a part in a coalition government...
...most important component of the package is a unit that transmits sound through a system of pipes such as the heating system of the Business School...
Good Credentials. Weltner's predecessor was one James C. Davis, an eight-term Congressman who kept getting returned to Washington because of Georgia's unfair county-unit electoral system (which was loaded in favor of rural counties as against urban areas), his unflagging efforts to secure appropriations to fight hog cholera and water hyacinths, and his diehard segregationism. Then the county-unit system was overturned by the federal courts, the district was redrawn to include more of Atlanta and less of farm counties, and in 1962 along came Weltner to run against Davis. He had imposing Southern credentials...
Probing for answers at the Common Cold Research Unit at Harvard Hospital (named for a World War II U.S. project) near Stonehenge, Dr. Andrewes set up an ingenious scheme for testing much of the folklore about colds, and for doing highly technical virology in a search for preventives and cures. Volunteer couples, including several newlyweds, were invited to spend ten free days in the hospital's small guest apartments; they even got cigarette money. But in return, they had to submit to some chilling experiments...
...using the threat of a gold standard in hopes of pressuring the U.S. and Britain into accepting lesser changes in the monetary system favorable to France. For the past six months he has been urging the creation of a new international reserve currency called the "cru" (for collective reserve unit), which would give greater weight to gold and more financial power to nations with heavy gold supplies. The U.S. has opposed it, but De Gaulle's attack on the dollar may force Washington to reconsider...