Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Certainly Touré needed help from somewhere; for when Guinea voted itself out of the French community, France in a fit of pique cut off all aid. But when the U.S. proffered assistance more than a year ago, Touré was not much interested. Washington's standard aid contract violated Guinea's sovereignty, he said. He objected to clauses that would guarantee U.S. aid officials who worked in Guinea immunity from taxes and that require Guinea to state its other sources of aid. He balked at U.S. insistence on scrutinizing Guinea's proposed aid projects to make...
...point is scoliosis, an abnormal curvature of the spine that occurs in childhood. As seen from behind, the spine should appear straight; in scoliosis it has a C-shaped or S-shaped curve. Extreme cases of scoliosis often require fusion of the spinal vertebrae. For most cases the standard treatment is forcible straightening of the spine, with the patient encased for four to six months in a massive, immobilizing plaster cast. To some parents of scoliosis victims, this treatment seems so punishing that they cannot be persuaded to permit it even to save their children from permanent deformity...
Whan it came to issues, Tom O'Connor was pretty sharp. He never professed to offer specific proposals, but he impressed many as at least having the right ideas. There was never any doubt where he stood on the standard issues, and he reiterated his stands time and again in forthright language. The changeover from a mayor interested in civic problems to the Senate candidate who must talk on national and international issues presented some difficulties. Because of this problem and also because of O'Connor's excellent record as mayor of the state's third largest city, many politicians...
...prime concern among O'Connor supporters in the closing days of the campaign was whether Kennedy would endorse (beyond the standard telegram sent to all candidates) O'Connor when the senator came to Boston last Monday. Kennedy did, but Massachusetts split its ballot...
RENTAL COMPACTS are so popular with economy-minded customers that agencies are stepping up their purchases, cutting back on standard low-price cars. Hertz says 15% of its 1961 fleet will be compacts, a hefty boost from 6% last year. Hertz rents compacts for $9 a day and 9? a mile, compared to $10 and 10? for their larger cars...