Word: frictional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHINA has imposed more central control than most Asian nations on its peoples. Yet southern Cantonese still sneer at "barbarians" from North China who speak a different tongue. Friction arises when Chinese from different regions are forced to work together. All Chinese consider themselves vastly superior to minority groups within their borders, such as the newly enslaved Tibetans and the Moslem Uighurs in the west. Formosans, themselves ethnic Chinese, dislike the Nationalist mainland refugees who have made them prosperous, and some hire thugs to prevent mésalliances between mainlanders and Formosan girls...
Through all this, Saxon remained untypically silent, though he did write the Federal Reserve denying that his men had withheld any reports that "it requested." But the revelations of friction between the Comptroller, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, all of which now divide the task of bank regulation, produced strong demands for some sort of reform. In a San Francisco speech, James L. Robertson, one of the Federal Reserve's seven governors, declared that today's "tangle of overlapping responsibilities, conflicting philosophies and procedural cross-purposes cannot be tolerated much longer." Merely "knocking heads...
Time to Match. Reading the report last week, most Canadians agreed with the description of the friction. However, people on both sides questioned the tone of high alarm. The commission did most of its interviewing in the spring and summer of 1964, when tensions were still high after a tiny lunatic fringe of Quebec separatists had been bombing mailboxes and raiding armories. The situation has eased considerably since then. Lester Pearson has appointed more French Canadians to key Cabinet posts than any other Prime Minister, and made a start on lowering the language barrier in the civil service. Canada...
...giving way to the likes of the teen-age hero of James Leigh's new novel What Can You Do? "I've never been able to see the big rebellion scene in order to prove you're an individual," drawls Hero Phil Fuller. "Much less friction if you just go with it. That's elementary physics: the heat of friction is waste energy...
Hard-Hitting Ions. Mattox supplied just the right combination of theory and practicality to handle a problem that has grown as steadily as expanding modern technology. Nowadays, nearly every metal gets plated for one reason or another-for beauty, against corrosion, to guard against wear, or to reduce friction. But all too often the plating does not stick tightly enough. The substrate (the metal to be plated) covers itself with a film of adhering gas or oxide that cannot be cleaned away; the plating material is deposited on the film, not on the underlying metal, forming a weak bond that...