Word: manual
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...West Point Products Corp. It starts at the push of a button, is powered by a twelve-volt car battery, can be recharged in 48 hours by simply plugging into a house circuit. Price for a three-speed, self-propelled, 21-in-reel mower: $190. For a rotary, manual-push model...
...north shore of Oriente province and was engaged by the militia. In the fight Invasion Leader Armentino Feria, described as a follower of Batista Gangster Rolando Masferrer, was killed. Captured, according to the communiqué, were two of his men, plus a U.S. flag, a U.S. Army manual, a U.S. Army uniform, seven U.S. carbines and three muleloads of ammunition. The remaining invaders, totaling 24 men, escaped to the hills. Inevitably the ministry charged that the invasion was dispatched from the U.S. by the "circles that direct policies of the U.S. Government...
...Nixon '60 Women 61% 51% Men 55 49 College 69 62 High school 58 48 Grade school 50 45 Independents 70 57 Professional men 68 63 White collar 63 55 Manual workers 50 39 21-29-year olds 51 42 30-49 years 55 47 50 years and over 61 55 Farmers 54 54 Protestants 63 61 Jews 25 19 Roman Catholics...
...government in Lagos may spend 43 per cent of the national income on education; the government in New Delhi knows that it dare not do so, although India is 85 per cent illiterate, for the Indian who receives a smattering of learning immediately considers himself too good for manual labor of any kind...
...first spaceman will be anything but a free soul. Swathed like a mummy in a cumbersome, confining space suit and strapped firmly to a couch, he will be able to perform only the simplest of manual tasks during his tour around the earth. His real job: to act as a human guinea pig for astrophysiologists, supply information on human behavior in the alien environment of space. Says Martin Co.'s Robert Demoret: "The important thing is to determine whether he can function effective, ly once he is up there. And that can only be done with any certainty...