Word: juggernauts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easiest. Each Rotel accommodates 39 passengers, a driver-mechanic-cook and a tour guide. By day the group rides conventionally in the bus, with the usual hurried stops for sightseeing and picture taking. In the evening the juggernaut pulls into a camping ground or stops at a village fountain, and the action shifts to the 40-ft. trailer hitched to the rear. It becomes an outdoor kitchen, dining area, dressing room and dormitory. After supper the tourists repair to the sleeping quarters: a morguelike arrangement of 3-ft-wide bunks stacked three high and 13 across, each with a single...
...Chicago, Chicago!" As 35,000 spectators pick up the chant, seven young men amble onstage to join the Beach Boys for a socko finale. They are the group known as Chicago. With five guitarists, two drummers and a three-piece brass section wailing, the combined bands form a rock juggernaut that quickly transforms the stadium into an enormous, throbbing, outdoor discotheque. The crowd has been on its feet for most of the six-hour concert...
...Communists; that government would then arrange what would amount to a negotiated surrender to the Communists. No specific terms were spelled out, but Hanoi and the Provisional Revolutionary Government made it clear that Saigon had at most a few days to take decisive action. After that, the encircling juggernaut would spring into action...
...Americans last week the mournful events in Viet Nam represented the disintegration of a long and painful effort. For South Vietnamese they represented far more: the virtual loss of social cohesion and political identity as the last vestiges of normal life disappeared in the face of the Communist juggernaut...
...wide-open race began with the graduation of U.C.L.A. Center Bill Walton, whose teams lost only two games in three years of conference play. Though this year's U.C.L.A. team is by no means a pushover-in 17 games it lost only twice-it is no Wooden juggernaut. "We can beat anyone-absolutely anyone," says Realist Wooden, "but lots of teams can beat...