Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Daniel J. Rufo, president of the firm, said he would have to cut off a few top stories from each of the three towers in the complex to keep within an FAR of six. In addition, the above-ground portion (3 stories high) of a five-story garage would have to be eliminated, Rufo said...
Henry Ford brought Negroes from the South to work in his auto factories. City blues begin in Detroit. The heavy beat of electric blues is the beat of the machines that ground the Negro down. It is the sound of the piston, the rhythm of the steel press. And the life of blues is the arpeggio of release, the moment when a few high beautiful notes free themselves from the beat and dance and dream of freedom...
Everything is ground down by the beat. The pleasure in physical sensations becomes a parody of itself. The honesty and directness of rural blues, their exuberance, their affection, become self-conscious. Pleasure becomes cheap vulgarity. Mytch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels...
...instead of reinforcing Kham Due, the U.S. decided to evacuate the camp. There were tactical reasons for the evacuation as well: the mountainous, triple-canopied terrain around Kham Due favored the enemy, and only limited ground reinforcements were available. With the Communists bunched around the camp, the U.S. also hoped to use its airpower to maximum effectiveness -and it did, killing hundreds of the Communists and setting off dozens of secondary explosions. Nonetheless, the evacuation turned out to be a harrowing operation. Two C-130s, a Skyraider fighter-bomber and five helicopters were gunned down by the North Vietnamese, including...
...recorded by Glen Campbell, it rose medium-high in the bestseller charts and won Campbell a Grammy award for the best male vocal performance of 1967. Meantime, Webb and a friend were planning a movie about a balloon trip. The only part of the venture that got off the ground was Webb's title song. It was recorded by The 5th Dimension, and it soared high in the charts, sold 875,000 copies and won some more Grammies. Trans World Airlines bought the rights to use it in its TV and radio commercials...