Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mortar fire, Viet Cong penetrated the depot's perimeter, detonated a satchel charge against one ammunition pad, setting it afire. What makes Long Binh easy to attack-and difficult to damage seriously-is that each revetted pad is separated widely from all the others to prevent a chain reaction of explosions if one goes up. Red terrorists also set off a bomb in a utility shed only 200 yards from the Danang beach bungalow of Marine Commander Lieut. General Lewis W. Walt. The general was unharmed...
...some conservatives, any tampering with the institution of the fourth vow was the first step in weakening the chain of loyalty that binds the Jesuits to the Pope. Paul, apparently, was worried about this too. Equally disturbing, in his view, was another suggestion that the Society abandon the rule of a compulsory hour each day for mental prayers; Paul called prayer "the indispensable armor for the soldier of Christ...
...Boston, Harvard students planned a series of lights-out beer busts. For stay-at-homes, a chain of New York novelty shops offered a kit containing 50 "I Was There" buttons and a candle. Most of the 30 million Americans who lived through history's biggest blackout a year ago this week approached the first anniversary of The Night with a certain nostalgia. The memory also prompted a more practical concern. What, if any thing, has been done to prevent another failure on the scale of the 1965 eclipse that plunged...
...master. "Monsieur and Madame are not at home," squawked a loudspeaker hooked up to the electronically operated gate of his villa, Notre Dame de Vie. A few intimate glimpses of life within still leak out to the world. A recent visitor recalls a prudent Picasso who has sworn off chain-smoking Gauloises, drinks carrot juice at teatime, guzzles thyme tea at other times, and sips wine only sparingly. A lifetime of painter's discipline has not changed. After dinner, Picasso leaps up, announces: "Now I must work," and paints until 1 or 2 in the morning...
...Chain Reaction. The Government estimates that of every dollar spent for food, roughly 39? goes to the farmer, 40? to the wholesaler and distributor, and only 21? to the retailer. Supermarket executives point out that their industry's profit margin after taxes has scarcely changed since 1960, runs a modest 1.3% of sales. But that widely used, poor-mouthing figure does not sum up the whole situation. By the more incisive measure of profit on invested capital, supermarkets earn 11.5%, almost exactly as much as the average for all U.S. manufacturing...