Word: armors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...1930s mixed coal tar, air and water to produce nylon, the wizards of Wilmington, Del., have been searching and researching for another equally profitable synthetic smash. By 1964, Du Pont chemists thought that they had found it: a porous polymer that looked and felt like leather, yet wore like armor plate. The company thereupon introduced Corfam, a weatherproof shoe material, predicting that by 1984 every fourth foot in the country would be encased in it. Du Pont stock rose to an all-time...
...herd are absurd, Ionesco says, so is Berenger, the one man who holds out. His defiant profession of faith in humanity is farcical rather than heroic, showing that individuality in an indifferent universe can be as futile as conformity. At one point, Berenger even longs for the hard green armor of the beasts, but it is too late to change. He proclaims "I am a monster! I am a monster!" and goes on to make his defiant defense of humanity. Only a performance that makes clear the ambivalence of Berenger's final stance can do full justice to the play...
Alphonse-Gaston Show. It was dangerous all right, and it promises to get more so, soon. After two weeks of small gains and large casualties, the Lam Son 719 forces were at last on the move again. Leapfrogging six miles past a stalled armor column on Route 9, swarms of U.S. helicopters laden with ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) troops flapped deep into Laos, settling into landing zones blasted out of the jungle by parachute-dropped 15,000-lb. bombs. From one of the new bases, code-named Sophia, 1,500 crack ARVN 1st Division troops punched...
...supply the main ARVN column (10,000 men) on Route 9 by road. In combat, ARVN commanders have often been unable to spell out their needs in comprehensible English when faced with real trouble. Hill 31 was overrun largely because the first Cobra gunships on the scene carried no armor-piercing rockets: the ARVN officer who radioed for support forgot to mention that 20 snarling Communist tanks were churning up to his defense perimeter...
...ARVN armor on Route 9 was to have thrust 25 miles to Tchepone, where main branches of the Ho Chi Minh Trail meet before snaking off into South Viet Nam and Cambodia...