Word: 000th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brazilian soccer star and the world's highest-paid professional athlete, scores his 1,000th goal...
...week, 31 U.S. fighting men died in Viet Nam. Among them were 16 Marines helping to mop up a trapped enemy unit below Danang and one infantryman in a patrol that was ambushed 40 miles north of Saigon. One of the 31, impossible to single out, became the 30,000th American to be killed in action in Viet Nam since the grisly log was begun on Jan. 1, 1961. Almost half of the total (14,400) died this year, many in the three major offensives launched by the Communists since the Tet holiday...
...biggest magnet for visitors is L.B.J.'s elaborately cosmeticized "Boyhood Home," a Texas Historical Landmark, which after three years of operation greeted its 200,000th visitor last summer. The modest white frame house is something more than "restored." All the rooms are furnished as parlors, stuffed with turn-of-the-century furniture and L.B.J. memorabilia. More rustic, but open to the public only when the President is away, is a rebuilt "birthplace" cabin on the edge of the ranch itself...
...voted to strike in October, the first month of heavy fall advertising, if the dismissals were carried out. They fear that the famed Paris-Match spirit has been fatally damaged, that the flamboyant weekly will never be quite the same again. "We are a team, with our 1,000th issue just published," said a veteran staffer. "It was going to be a big fete with a photo exposition at the Louvre with 1,000 pictures. Now, instead, the mood is one of mourning...
...these coherent qualities that make laser light so narrow-beamed, so easy to focus and so powerful. Laser light can be focused into a spot with a diameter of only I/10,000th of a centimeter. Concentrated into so small an area, it burns billions of times brighter than the sun's surface. Instead of rapidly diverging...