Word: impacted
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Tightening the Grip. As the impact of the elections sank in, the military mutterings grew so loud that President Castello Branco was forced into a move that would only make his government even more unpopular. In return for not interfering with the results, the stern linha dura (hard line) officers won the promise that Castello Branco would send new proposals to Congress tightening the revolution's hold on the country through military courts and police. Most important, the military wants to change next year's presidential elections from direct balloting by the people to indirect balloting by Congress...
...waste disposal. But an expanding population needs houses, and houses occupy land formerly devoted to other uses. Though reduction in grazing and food-producing acreage can be partially offset by technological advances, decrease in open spaces cannot. Even our national and state parks cannot remain wilderness areas, for the impact of visitors is changing the character of these areas...
...might conceivably be alive today. In Philadelphia last week an assistant counsel of the Warren Commission, Arlen Specter, pointed out that Harvey Oswald's first bullet, which struck the President in the neck, would not have proved fatal. Had J.F.K. not been wearing the brace, he suggested, the impact would probably have knocked him out of the line of fire. As it was, said Specter, "the President's back brace kept him in an erect position so that the second bullet struck him in the head...
Traffic, already confused and congested, could become worse. Pei has had a traffic study done and will work with Cambridge officials to case things. But the large implications of the complex's commercial impact remain unanswered. In ten or fifteen years, will the small stores along Mt. Auburn Street near the yards' be replaced with motels or restaurants? Or, perhaps the drawing power of the Library complex will simply move general commercial activity westward? The questions are as interesting as they are illusive, though Pei's insistence on eating places and souvenir shops shows that he is making...
Half of the audience in Philharmonic Hall gave The Shop on High Street a deserved five-minute standing ovation; the other half remained seated, paralyzed by the film's impact. Director Jan Kadar uses his camera as the eyes of Tono Britko to place the viewer inside the mind of the simple farmer who the Nazis make the "Aryan Manager" of a Jewish button shop in Czechoslovakia...