Word: descendant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...necessary to ensure the pilot's safety. Even landing gear might be eliminated; there are concepts in which RPVs could be launched by mobile catapult or from the wings of larger mother aircraft-and then be hooked in the air by the mother ship and retrieved as they descend under parachutes...
...guts of the houses lie out in the street, and the magnitude of the damage stuns. Everyone is tired. Nerves are stretched and tempers short. Families are waiting to see what their neighbors will do-and what the Government will do. And, cruelly, on Sundays the tourists descend, pointing at the wreckage and aiming their Instamatics. Some have got spit on their lenses...
...more or less clothed, one beach in particular belongs to all of Europe, and all of Europe seems to descend upon it in August. That is the 25 miles of broad sandy coast on either side of Rimini, part of Italy's Adriatic Riviera. The cost can be modest-$10 a day buys a room and meals-for those willing to holiday amid beach umbrellas ten to 30 rows deep. Some Italians who are compelled to take their vacations in the August crush have characterized them as holidays at hard labor. After the vacationer has fought the battle...
This month an estimated 500,000 tourists and sport lovers will descend upon Munich for the 20th Olympic Games. What they will find, reports TIME Correspondent Jesse Birnbaum, is an overgrown village that likes to think of itself as Germany's secret capital, a city of museums (25) and music (three symphony orchestras, a 48-week opera season), with memories of Richard Strauss and Wagner, Bavaria's mad King Ludwig II-and Adolf Hitler. Vignettes from Birnbaum's recent visit there...
...Democratic Convention, 5,000 delegates and alternates will descend. That is only the beginning. Some 35,000 others will be there: Democratic politicians and their staffs and families and about 8,000 newsmen. With 29,000 hotel rooms, Miami Beach can accommodate those visitors readily enough. But for months yippies and others have been promising that thousands of demonstrators will be trooping across the causeways onto the island to make themselves heard. The ghost of Chicago hangs in the air like a dark presence, and many of the locals angrily protested accepting the conventions at all. Besides the incoming street...