Word: scaling
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Hney Newton, the Minister of Defense, is in jail-receiving monotonously regular rejections to his requests for parole-and many people think he is dead. Bobby Scale, the Panther Chairman, is in jail, too-and if the State of Connecticut has its way, he may soon really be dead. He wrote most of Seize the Time in jail...
...this area-organizing the Panther recruits and educating them to execute Newton's program-that Bobby Scale is at his best. Newton laid down the strategy, and Seale at once grasped the tactical details necessary to keep it going. Probably the most interesting parts of the book deal with Seale's struggle to transform the hustlers who joined the Panthers for their snappy uniforms and reputation into a disciplined force. His successes and failures (and his total honesty about both) give the reader much more of a sense of what it means to be a Panther than the ideological explanations...
...permission from Congress. Presidents Johnson and Nixon were able to enlarge the military by almost one million men. The Gates Commission recommended that activation of the proposed stand-by draft be made possible only with Congressional approval. This restriction would enable Congress and the public to debate any large-scale expansion of the military, and therefore, any decision to engage the country in a large-scale undeclared...
...them illegal under the terms of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade-though Tokyo plans to abolish restrictions on 55 items by 1971. The government justifies its barriers on the grounds that some Western European nations have similar illegal restrictions against Japanese goods, although on a much smaller scale than Japan. Moreover, Japan has been excessively reluctant to accept foreign investment. Many of its industries are closed entirely to outside capital. A four-step program of liberalization, which began in 1967, opens some industries to foreign ownership. While the list includes fabricated iron and steel, most of the other...
HARVARD'S one other spraying program has received a clean bill of health from biologists: B and G uses about 40 gallons of oil on lilacs and about 90 gallons of oil on lilacs and hibernating scale insects. The solution dissolves the insects' protective wax and the petroleum then suffocates them...