Word: brush
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...also important because it is likely to be one of the posts along the barrier that Defense Secretary Robert McNamara said would be constructed south of the DMZ. Already it is the western terminus of a 600-yd.-wide swath that was bulldozed for eleven miles through the scrub brush and elephant grass earlier in the year to serve as a free-fire zone in which anything that moves is shot at. Though details of the new barrier remain secret, it is assumed that it will be an extension of the present line over to the Laotian border. Thus...
...last year, an embittered Congress has balked at Presidential programs that would increase the danger of U.S. involvement in future brush-fire wars...
...chain was started in 1923, when Louis H. Brush, a young publisher with two Ohio papers, and Roy Moore, sales manager for King Features, raised $550,000 to buy the Marion (Ohio) Star from President Warren Harding two months before his death...
Affairs in Order. "We've known these people for years," says St. Clair Mc-Cabe, Thomson's general manager for North America, "but we never thought they'd sell." Brush-Moore sold because its owners were losing interest in the newspaper business and wanted to set their estate affairs in order. One group of stockholders tried to hold on to a few papers, but Thomson was adamant about getting them all. The only thing he did not get was the chain's one radio station, WHBC, in Canton; the 1912 Communications Act forbids an alien...
...Darmstadt courses opened in 1946 as refreshers for Hitler-frustrated German musicians who wanted to brush up on their Stravinsky, Bartok, Hindemith and Schoenberg. In succeeding years, Darmstadt focused on the development of serial techniques in Schoenberg and Webern, and gave exposure to the works of such post-serial experimenters as Edgar Varese and Olivier Messiaen. Soon younger composers-notably Hans Werner Henze and Pierre Boulez-began unveiling compositions of their own at the festival's semiprivate "workshop" concerts...