Word: block
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Almost uniquely in Viet Nam last week, it was possible to follow clearly the progression of one battle: the block-by-block struggle of the allies to recapture the city of Hué from the North Vietnamese units that swept into it two weeks ago. The North Vietnamese had arrived to stay, and students from the University of Hué acted as their guides, in some cases donning the uniform of Viet Cong regulars. As the ancient capital of Viet Nam, Hue was a prime piece of captured real estate for propaganda purposes, and the NVA fought for every inch...
...standing three places down the alphabet-thus D stood for a, E for b, F for c, etc. Mary Queen of Scots wrote conspiratory messages in cipher; when intercepted and interpreted by England's first great cryptanalyst, Thomas Phelippes, they helped bring Mary to the chopping block. In the U.S., Benedict Arnold employed several codes, including one that was keyed to Volume I of the fifth Oxford edition of Blackstone's Commentaries...
...physical side of the City in 1960. When I was elected the new city hall was to have been built on the site of the old Boston Post on Washington St.; the new Federal Building was to have been in Back Bay next to the Trinity Church on that block where the new John Hancock 60-story skyscraper will be and the State had some idea that they might want to build something, at sometime, somewhere. The first thing we did was to go to Washington and change the decisions which had already been made both in Boston and Washington...
ONLY a part of the HPC's immediate future appears bleak. The saturation effect which may block further changes by the CEP-Faculty route does not apply to the HPC audits which grow steadily more prestigious and powerful. The first of the great audits brought major changes in the Government Department. One this fall led the History Department to junk junior generals Monday. Three minor changes the HPC recommended in History and Literature drew an immediate response, and the HPC Arch Sci committee, working with like-minded Faculty members, was able to write the prospectus for a new department...
...with other basic life chemicals in the primitive oceans, the NASA scientists theorize, they interacted with magnesium ions in the ocean, leading eventually to the formation of chlorophyll. Before the appearance of chlorophyll, long-chain, carbon-based molecules could reproduce themselves only by using other of the limited building-block materials in the oceans. With chlorophyll available, some long-chain molecules were able, by photosynthesis, to produce their own life material out of plentiful water and carbon dioxide, thus availing themselves of an endless supply of building materials and ensuring that life would proliferate and endure...