Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inspect the damage of the first raid, came up with his own solution to the province's troubles. It included the possible evacuation of the entire civilian population and the creation of a bulldozed, mined and wired barrier along the DMZ. Though such a Viet Nam-wall idea has long been discussed in Washington and rejected as too costly, the wall would serve to make a direct North Vietnamese invasion that much more difficult. It was a measure of the serious ness of the situation that the Marines, for all their misgivings about the wall's feasibility, last...
Born near Trieste, diminutive (5 ft. 6 in., 135 Ibs.), Mario Andretti came to the U.S. in 1955 and settled in Nazareth, Pa. He originally intended to be a welder, gave up that idea when he discovered that he could make more money racing stock cars and midgets on the dirt tracks of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Today, Andretti is the hottest racing driver in the world...
...actually designed the Mustang, succeeded his boss two years ago as Ford division general manager. Last week Frey, 44, moved even higher. He was promoted to the brand-new post of corporate vice president of North American vehicle product development. Frey is Detroit's sharpest idea man. Besides the Mustang, he is responsible for such innovations as the four-door Thunderbird, the stereo dashboard tape deck, and the station-wagon door that opens out as well as down. He is one of the few auto executives with experience in all three of the industry's essential areas: design...
...Great British Train Robbery is neither great nor British. It is, however, a robbery-by the Germans, of an idea that could have made an excellent picture. The film dramatizes the 1963 hold up of a Royal Mail 'train from which a gang of crooks heisted a world-record $7,000,000, most of it still unrecovered...
6.Use the foreigner's own rules to control him, especially the Western legal concept of sovereignty, the idea that diplomats are accredited to governments (not to the local people), that domestic matters are beyond foreign question...