Word: build
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allocate $112 million in health projects, provide 600 more health aides in Indian communi ties, spend $22.7 million on community-action schemes and $25 million on concentrated employment plans and vocational training, organize a $500 million revolving-loan guarantee and insurance fund, and allot $30 million a year to build roads linking isolated Indian communities to the rest of society...
Viet Nam resembled a huge chess board. Both the allies and Communists reassessed one another's strengths and weaknesses, continued to build up manpower and resupply lines and jockeyed their units into fresh positions. The shifts inevitably touched off some fierce skirmishing, but both sides were, for the most part, waiting to see who would make the first major move. There were signs that, after almost six weeks of near-static defense in which General Giap has enjoyed all the initiative-and subsequently failed to exploit it-the move might well be made by the allies...
...Chinese are supplying the V.C. and North Vietnamese with a new 107mm. rocket that made its deadly debut during Tet. It fires a self-propelled warhead that can demolish a small build ing or blow up a bunker at a range of five miles. The 107 has about l½ times the striking power of a 75-mm. cannon, but it weighs-rocket, launcher, tripod and all-only about 200 lbs. v. 1,270 for a 75-mm.-pack howitzer...
Anguished Recesses. Jeffrey huddled with two friends who had helped him build the original troupe: Choreographer Gerald Arpino, 37, and Business Manager Alex Ewing, 37. Over the next year, in a kind of freewheeling fiscal pas de trois, they raised $165,000 and landed two Ford grants totaling $165,000. Ewing, a Yale graduate, arranged for a one-week tryout season at the City Center. Arpino created two new ballets. Jeffrey, meanwhile, hand-picked the best 20 dancers in his school, and rehearsed them until 10 every night for nearly seven months. When the revitalized Jeffrey Ballet finally made...
...heart of Atlanta is rising Peachtree Center, a $175 million com plex that already includes the 22-story Merchandise Mart, three office build ings, a bus terminal with a 2,000-seat theater, and the new, 800-room Regency Hyatt House. Soon to be added are a 70-story office skyscraper and sev eral high-rise apartment buildings. As a civic enterprise, it would do justice to any U.S. city. What makes it all the more remarkable is that the whole of Peachtree Center has gone up without a penny of public funds...