Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Haryou-Act, Harlem's much publicized anti-poverty agency, is also expanding its already firm power base through block-by-block organization. In recent months, each block in the neighborhood has elected a representative and these representatives expect to be a powerful political pressure group...
...intended that the several new disciplines included inthe Behavioral and Social Sciences Council be established as independent departments in the Medical School. Only from such a base, it is thought, can the quality of faculty that is desired and traditional be recruited...
Like Antarctica, the moon was originally thought to be of huge strategic and economic importance, particularly as an invulnerable base for rockets. But, as with Antarctica, the strategists have had second thoughts. First off, the expense of ferrying missiles to the moon and installing them would be literally astronomical. Any rockets launched from the moon would be in transit to the earth for more than 30 hours, ample time for them to be detected, identified and destroyed by an anti-missile system. As for the moon's economic potential, any metal or mineral found there would have...
...341st, are believed to be group ing along the DMZ to join the 324B when the rains come. To meet the pos sibility of a major offensive, the Ma rines have moved five battalions up to the border, transformed a remote out post at Dong Ha into a major base, complete with airstrip and facilities...
With his Columbia dams thus nicely paying for themselves, Bennett plunged ahead on the northern Peace. The Peace dam is a great earthen slab that will rise higher than the Grand Coulee, 2,700 ft. wide at the base and stretching 1.3 miles across the valley. Engineers devised a mammoth conveyor belt that, moving at 121 m.p.h., delivers 12,000 tons of fill an hour from a moraine four miles away. When the dam is topped off, it will back up a lake stretching for 240 miles...