Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Defense Secretary Robert McNamara resisted pressure from the military and Congress to set up some version of ABM. Meanwhile, the research effort led to Nike-X, an expanded and refined system that employs two types of missiles and electronically operated radars that can handle numerous targets simultaneously (see box next page). Theoretically, at least, the Nike-X proj ect ? which is still receiving $175 million a year in development funds ? thus overcame some of the main technical problems posed by Zeus...
...Barring the use of half-a-dozen vulgarisms and the last scene, the film was not objectionable, and one might even find it instructive as well as entertaining," he said. He added that the actresses were excellent and had been exploited in the sex scene for box office interests...
Tickets for tonight's ECAC finals game against Cornell will be on sale from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Boston Garden Box Office...
...guerrilla bases in Syria and Jordan. Fedayeen bombs exploded in Jerusalem and Lydda. Yet the two events that may affect the area's future more than the violence had to do with changes in leadership. In Israel, the sudden death by heart attack of Premier Levi Eshkol (see box following page) opened the possibility of a struggle for succession. In Syria, a forced change in government may help close ranks against Israel in the Arab world...
...author, who in the past has dealt fondly and ruefully with flawed and crummy people (Billy Liar, Jubb), starts in an ordinary way-burying his hero to the neck in an anthill of character defects. What is unusual is that Waterhouse then proceeds to spread a blanket, unpack a box lunch, and invite the reader to watch the fun. William, the hero, is a 35-year-old Londoner of such low spiritual energy that he cannot be said to have anything so definite as a desire. But when he remembers to be wistful, he thinks vaguely that it would...