Word: areas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...circled the area, taking photographs, logging everything, the airmen watched pale-faced as tiny ambulances sped toward a South Carolina community with the incredibly appropriate name of Mars Bluff...
...Communism throughout the world, said Dulles in closed session, the U.S. has only a limited amount of money. This sometimes meant that funds which might have gone to friendly nations were better spent in helping uncommitted nations struggling to maintain their independence. He pointed out that the SEATO area received over $600 million in U.S. grants and loans last year...
Here, as in many another area, U.S. idealism has been brought face to face with an unpalatable truth: when self-determination conflicts with the overriding U.S. objective of preserving the free world from Communist conquest, both expediency and good conscience dictate that self-determination must take second place. For unless the tide of Communism is contained, the world's dependent peoples will lose even the freedom to cry for freedom...
...high school's four best skiers below C level. Among those sunk: 14-year-old Sharon Pecjak. the best junior girl racer for miles around and daughter of Schodl Board Chairman Rudy Pecjak. The following week the four were to ski in elimination races to determine the area's squad for the National Junior championships. Although they would not race under school auspices, Superintendent William Speer held that eligibility rules covered the elimination races...
...bureau has high hopes for SEAC. Step by step, like a once-blind person learning to see, the computer is learning to recognize patterns. It can count dark or light objects in a photograph, measure the area of each and report how many are bigger than a specified size. It is not fooled by such complicated shapes as spirals or circles, and it ignores such distractions as specks of dirt. It can recognize printed letters and numbers, and the bureau hopes that soon it will identify diagrams, chemical formulas...