Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Viet Minh's ack-ack spat up at him, Earthquake made the wide circling letdown to 1,500 ft., lumbered across the deep valley until the "kickers" shoved the load out through the big rear door over the ever-shrinking drop zone. Four times Earthquake's plane was hit. Once a slug cut his elevator controls, and he had to fly home on the trim tabs. Reported Earthquake cheerfully: "We could make it go up or down, but never stay level. We went home like a kangaroo...
...Canal Zone Governor John S. Seybold hopes to head off a slide. After a look at the cracks. Seybold ordered crews to strip off topsoil for a better view of the fissures and to start a road to the hilltop for operations to come. Probable next step: test borings to map the crevices exactly. In the end, it may be necessary to remove the threatening slab. This week two representatives of the Morrison-Knudsen construction company, world's greatest earth mover (TIME. May 3), flew down to have a look at Contractor's Hill...
...MOTOR SCOOTERS were rushed into production in East Germany to compete with West German models made by ex-Aircraft Designer Messerschmitt, but have proved to be flops. First three slapped together for the East Zone May Day celebration all broke down within a few hundred yards on their initial test runs, were dropped from the big parade...
Drafted in secret by American, British, and Yugoslav experts, the proposal that Dulles presented would give Zone A, including the city itself, to Italy. In return, Tito would build himself another port at the city of Capodistria, further south, with the United States, Britain and France paying the bill...
Both Italy and Yugoslavia demand "peace with honor" in any Trieste settlement. Earlier Anglo-American proposals were doomed to failure because they did not represent a compromise. This one does. While Italy renounces its claim to Zone B, Yugoslavia loses the city itself, and the British and Americans pay for a new port...