Word: equipment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take a while before its effects are fully felt. But a lot of direct aid already exists-notably Government fellowships at the college-graduate level. For instance, graduate students may qualify for further schooling and stipends if they need competence in one of more than 100 languages to equip them to 1) teach in U.S. institutions of higher learning or 2) take a job, whether or not with the Government, which will "contribute significantly to the conduct of the nation's economic, cultural, educational, scientific or political relations." Other fellowships under the National Defense Education Act are aimed...
Price Fight. Under pressure from the Government, the industry will equip all new cars with at least five safety features. Among them: rear-seat belts, padded instrument panels, outside rear-view mirrors. As options last year, all these cost between $50 and $75. Putting them on as standard equipment set off a rare price battle in Detroit...
Lady Allen got the idea on a 1945 visit to Copenhagen, where a Danish landscape architect had created an immensely popular playground by stocking a lot with building materials. It looked like a junkyard. Back home, she organized committees to take over old bomb sites and equip them in the same way. The kids thought that they were the best thing since ice cream. There are now 28 adventure playgrounds in England, and dozens more in Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland...
...flight films, which TWA pioneered in 1961 As a result, TWA, plus Pakistan Inter national and Philippine airlines, which have also inaugurated movies, will keep the screens lit. A few other foreign lines may also introduce flicks, and Pan American has announced that it will equip its international flights with movies "as speedily as possible" to compete with...
...Stone, in his "Reply to the White Paper," tends to dismiss the discovery of a ship running arms on February 16, 1955 as being insignificant. This one ship had enough arms aboard her to re-equip approximately 15 per cent of the hard-core Vietcong force and enough ammunition for 20 full scale battalion actions lasting 24 hours each. One hesitates to think about the effect just ten such shiploads would have on the course of the Vietnam...