Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...strength? To the alarm of many of its allies who had helped the Germans in their time of trouble, West Germany is acting like a penny- pinching miser among nations, more intent on adding to its riches than on taking its responsible place in the world as a major creditor nation...
...current international gold crisis has made the problem increasingly critical. The disproportionate U.S. contribution to Western defense and foreign aid is a major part of the gold exodus that has lowered U.S. bullion reserves from $24 billion in 1948 to $18.5 billion today. In September, U.S. officials spoke bluntly to Bonn's visiting Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. But the real holdout appears to be Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. President Eisenhower himself has private- ly written Adenauer asking for more German help. Later this month, both Secretary of the Treasury Robert Anderson and Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon will travel...
...couriers, traveling under the name of Altmann, readily identified himself as a Czech army major and his companion as a Czech army captain. Each copy of classified government documents is identifiable by a secret mark, and the marks on the microfilmed papers pointed straight to Frenzel. Tapped on the shoulder in the Bundestag a few minutes after finishing his speech, Frenzel meekly began mumbling a confession during the ride to Karlsruhe Prison...
Simple inability to raise or even borrow the money is a major bar to the study of medicine in the U.S., reported the Association of American Medical Colleges last week. Spending an average of $10,000, medical students pay about twice as much for their training as other graduate students. Yet two out of three nonmedical graduate students get an average $2,000 a year in outside help, compared with $500 for one out of two M.D. students. Unlike the prospective Ph.D., "who characteristically makes his living by going to school," the medical student or his family pays four-fifths...
...ever seen. Operating under a dozen aliases (e.g., bilious attack, acute yellow atrophy), hepatitis has occasionally been confused with such unrelated ailments as malaria and mononucleosis, was once believed to be a penalty for excessive drinking. During World War II hepatitis was epidemic in the armed forces of the major combatants as well as in many civilian populations, and more than 170,000 cases were reported in the U.S. Army alone. Because of the difficulties of diagnosis, and because the Public Health Service kept no statistics on the disease until 1952, peacetime outbreaks were thought to be relatively...