Word: zonal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year. Though central air conditioning costs about $1,300 v. $140 to $290 for bedroom units, the industry has convinced many that the central units last longer, reduce both allergies and housework by filtering out pollen and dust. In office buildings, the trend is toward the central "zonal" unit controlled separately by each tenant...
...stages would last three years each; no time limit was set for the third and last stage. There is specific provision for inspection and control to prevent cheating, but to minimize Russia's fear of "spies" in the guise of inspectors, the plan introduces the new concept of zonal inspection, or sampling (TIME, March 23), to check treaty compliance on a random basis. Successive stages of the plan would be supervised by a U.N. disarmament organization (ultimately responsible to the Security Council). Eventually a U.N. "peace force" would wield all military power in the world except for minor...
...Torschlnsspanik (gate-closing panic) just before the Wall went up Aug. 13, the number rose to an astounding 1,700 a day. Last month, defying the walls, watchtowers, guards and dogs, about 860 ran the gantlet to West Germany, about half through divided Berlin and half across the zonal border. For October the total figure was even higher: about...
...strength of their limping, labor-short country. Since 1945, some 4,000,000 East Germans-almost one-fourth of East Germany's entire present population-have fled to the West. Some have braved the guards, watchdogs and barbed wire to slip directly across the long, 400-mile zonal frontier that separates the two Germanys. But most have chosen the safer route through occupied Berlin, where, by Big Four agreement, anyone can ride the subway or elevated train to the freedom of West Berlin, where airliners are waiting to whisk them to safety in West Germany itself...