Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thomas handed his pistol to Wilkins. There was a brief discussion on whether they should force the other car off the road, but Wilkins said, "Bubba, if you hit that automobile at all we may get caught. If you get just a little bit of paint on it we'll get caught...
Along the way, Mrs. Crist has also become a feature attraction on NBC-TV's Today show, where, she says, "My criticism comes across more strongly than in print." Last March, she managed to pan three super-spectaculars in one brief appearance: The Greatest Story Ever Told ("A kind of dime-store holy picture"), Lord Jim ("A lot of heavy five-cent philosophy"), and The Sound of Music (she found the children "strictly loathsome...
...Relay I and II built by Radio Corporation of America for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. On low orbits, they all whirled around the earth faster than the 24-hour period of the earth's rotation; they could be used for communication only during the brief periods when they were within line-of-sight range of their ground stations. Such a system would require many more satellites to be practical...
...foreign priests, severed papal relations, closed the University of Santo Domingo, and levied confiscatory taxes. Not until 1844, when Haiti was torn by one of its many civil wars, did the Dominican Republic finally break free?only to stagger through 22 revolutions over the next 70 years, including a brief period (1861-65) when it once again reverted to Spanish rule...
...July. At 73? a pack (83% of that in taxes), Sweden will still rank below Denmark, where a 90% tax makes a pack of 20 cost 88?, the world's highest price for cigarettes. Swedish officials predict from experience that the boost will bring only a brief and shallow slump in sales...