Word: asphaltic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bangkok bustles with evidences of the pursuit of sanouk, or pleasure, the mainspring of Thai life. Busy asphalt boulevards are supplanting the ancient, lettuce-clogged klongs-the canals where Thais still fish, drink, bathe and eat the lettuce. Venerable Siamese villas with cupolas like bowler hats squat cheek by jowl with neon-lit bars, cinemas and boxing pits. The jet age has made Bangkok the air hub of southern Asia, the halfway house for round-the-world trippers from the U.S. It is also rest and recreation for a carefully regulated 500 G.I.s at a time, on leave from Viet...
...asked the students to sit down while we waited. I wanted to show the police that we were organized and mature, that this was not a wild demonstration." With the rustle of dresses and the thwack of books hitting asphalt, they...
Baker will probably run only one race, the two-mile, and he'll be shooting for Walt Hewiett's Harvard indoor record of 9:11.6. His competitors will include high school sensation Art Dulong of Randolph, who ran a 9:09.8 on a flat asphalt track last week...
...economy, Wilson ordered an airlift of oil from Dar es Salaam, and soon five R.A.F. Britannias began flying in from the Tanzania port. The U.S. and Canada announced that they would help out with an airlift of their own. The Great North Road, a part dirt, part asphalt strip that links Lusaka with the east coast at Mombasa and Dar es Salaam, groaned under the heavy loads of trucks...
Married. Patrick John Wayne, 26, chip off the old Duke, currently seen in Shenandoah; and Margaret Ann Hunt, 23, daughter of a prominent Los Angeles asphalt-company executive; in Hollywood...