Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bracing for Brush Fires. The review will range across U.S. defensive power-from high-flying bombers to Navy troopships. But it will focus on U.S. capability of fighting a conventional war, the weapons and manpower that can be strengthened significantly in a few months' time. Under consideration: calling six Army Reserve divisions and six National Guard divisions to active duty...
...group frauds and fads of the Ruarks and Barnaby Conrads; the Spanish Civil War is now as over-romanticized as our own. But Hemingway found them first; and by rendering such images with the tactile reality of a consummate art, he fixed them as lasting points of focus for an age's emotions. But the images, like the style, have been with us now since before we were born. Perhaps this is why the eulogistic memoirs of his contemporaries don't get to us. They were there; we weren...
...Carnegie Corporation of New York, challenging the official educational myth that a child is not physically able to read until the age of 6½ (when his eyes suddenly can focus on letter shapes, the theory goes), granted $61,900 to the Denver school system to pursue a unique program that teaches parents to teach their preschool tots how to read. The reading technique, originally developed for use in Denver kindergartens, was devised by Dr. Paul McKee and Miss M. Lucile Harrison, both professors of elementary education at Colorado State College, relies on a system of phonics based...
...reader who sights along the rifle: "Look. With a red face and blond hair and blue eyes. With no cap and his moustache is yellow. With blue eyes. With pale blue eyes. With pale blue eyes with something wrong with them. With pale blue eyes that don't focus. Close enough. Too close. Yes, Comrade Voyager. Take it, Comrade Voyager...
...Focus on America (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). An archaeological tour of ancient Arizona, including a sort of person-to-person visit with prehistoric Cochise...