Word: vides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cheap Power. Key to the state-sponsored scheme is a special deal to pro vide the plants with cheap power. Each company will build its own smelter and invest jointly with the government in a power plant. The government will contribute 30-year loans totaling $149 million to cover the investment in the power stations and will charge the companies special low rates for the electricity they...
...ambitious venture. In 1966 the Diners' Club started an automobile club-style travel information service, the Wayfarers Club, whose membership has grown steadily to more than 90,000. It later acquired a small, Mississippi-based travel service, now called Reservations World, which is being expanded to pro vide tourists and travel agents with com puterized, one-stop reservation-processing for worldwide hotel and transportation accommodations. Last fall, in the biggest undertaking of all, the Diners' Club paid out $5,000,000 to acquire Fugazy Travel Bureau, the third largest travel agency in the U.S., after Amer ican Express...
...have more or less consistently been more conservative than American Catholics, and Catholics in turn more so than American Jews. It happens that Washington is, for practical purposes, a Southern protestant city, and in that respect combines conservative tendencies of a pervasive nature, or at least has done so. Vide Congressman Broyhill, the Federal civil servant's concept of a forward looking legislator...
...world-communications system, but the Russians are not far behind. On April 23 they launched their first attempt, which has apparently gone into a twelve-hour orbit that will keep it over the Soviet land mass for a considerable time during each revolution. Two or three satellites would pro vide the U.S.S.R. with communications day and night. This may be all that the Russians are planning, but a powerful satellite sending strong, clear radio propaganda mixed with entertainment to the transistor radios that swarm in every country would be a powerful and potentially dangerous influence. The J.S. could...
...small precincts, three "reporters" often found themselves struggling to see over the shoulder of one kind old lady counting votes. It was too silly and needlessly expensive. Last week the three networks and the wire services agreed to set up a joint Network Election Service that will di vide the chores, pool the results, and present the same vote count to a viewer no matter what channel he is watching...