Word: scale
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Dulles hinted that the U.S. was softening its line. At a headline-making press conference in September 1958, Dulles called Chiang's dream of reconquering the mainland "problematical." The U.S. apparently hoped to neutralize both sides on the Quemoy issue by pressing for a cease-fire and large-scale withdrawal of Quemoy troops to Formosa. If there were a "dependable ceasefire" in the area, said Dulles pointedly, "I think it would be foolish to keep these large forces on these islands. We thought it was rather foolish to put them there, and, as I say, if there were...
...Warsaw cease-fire talks came to nothing, and the Chinese Communists, who had left off their bombardment for a short period, resumed their shelling-but on a smaller scale. They pounded Quemoy on odd-numbered days, more as a nagging reminder of their presence than of their purpose. Over the months, their guns were heard less and less (Eisenhower's visit to Formosa last June occasioned the last big shelling). Though U.S. policy has at times been wobbly as well as ambiguous, Quemoy and Matsu, garrisoned with 100,000 Chinese Nationalist troops, are still free-a fair measure...
...also noted the absence of three factors he viewed as having permitted the "wage-push" price rise of the 1957 recession. These were: a lack of foreign competition, a belief among businessmen that prices would keep rising, and a monetary policy favoring large-scale expansion of credit...
Even more serious than the difficulties of voluntary poverty, however, is a "neurosis of chronic boredom." Goodman finds that, as cities, machines and the organization of production have grown "out of human scale," the sense of causality is lost. In the crowded city, there is a loss of neighborhood, because of poor planning and increased mobility of families. "A child might not even know what work his daddy does. Shop talk will be, almost invariably, griping about interpersonal relations...
...more mechanically minded, do-it-yourself dinosaur construction kits are on sale. These kits provide a mass of miniature plastic Tyrannosaurus Rex bones from which the prospective paleontologist can construct his own small scale dinosaur skeleton...