Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CITY. Out of the disarmingly simple story of a Calcutta housewife forced to seek employment and the effect this has on her and her family, Indian Director Satyajit Ray has fashioned a quietly superlative epic...
About 14,000 Army men will be lifted from the nation's combat-ready strategic reserve force of 41 divisions, which are located in the continental U.S. The Defense Department meanwhile is expected to authorize creation of a new division that, in effect, would actually strengthen the strategic reserve by bringing its force up to five full divisions. The U.S. will continue to main tain five divisions in West Germany and two in Korea...
...effect, the modifications have made Apollo a brand new spacecraft that will have to be tested for structural integrity, vibration characteristics during liftoff, and behavior in a vacuum before it can be requalified for flight. Such testing has pushed the initial launch date for the Apollo series to early summer of next year. But this winter the spacecraft will face its baptism by fire in Houston, when NASA engineers try to set a full-scale Apollo ablaze under varied atmospheric conditions...
...statute to include such flexible grounds as cruel and inhuman treatment and separation for two years. But having made divorce easier at home, it added a murky section that seemed to imply that quickie out-of-state divorces will no longer be recognized. The section will not take effect until Sept. 1, and the approaching deadline was what had everyone going south...
...drugstore racks blossomed with a literary phenomenon: paperback-book magazines-a lively blend of avant-garde fiction and nonfiction, poetry and criticism. In effect, the p.b.m. was a mass-distributed little magazine, a brave effort to sell quality in quantity. Commercially, it soon flopped...