Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week long, New York lay under an eerie siege. From Manhattan's sky scrapers to the rows of neat little homes in Queens, from Harlem's tenements to the farthest reaches of Brooklyn, the bustle and excitement that symbolize the world's greatest city became a slow-motion mockery of itself. For the first time in history, the huge city was with out any mass public transportation, which had been shut down by a strike of its 36,000-member Transport Workers Union. The 134 miles of subway tubes, normally jammed daily with 4.6 million passengers, stretched...
Behind the President's massive thrust for peace lay a long and frustrating history. For ten years, under three Presidents, the war in Viet Nam had dragged on, ever more menacing to the security of South Viet Nam, ever more increasing the U.S. commitment of men and materiel, of blood and treasure. Over the years, every other type of regular-and irregular-diplomatic approach to Hanoi had been tried-and had failed. In the last year alone, more than 200 private contacts had been initiated. Not one had produced a perceptible nod from the other side. The President...
...lethally effective terrorist army of 165,000 whose supplies, orders and reinforcements flowed freely from the North. Viet Minh regulars were infiltrating at the rate of a regiment every two months. From the tip of Ca Mau Peninsula to the 17th parallel, huge swaths of the South lay under Communist sway, and with good reason: in that year, the Viet Cong had kidnaped or assassinated 11,000 civilians, mostly rural administrators, teachers and technicians...
...launched a major new salvo last September with a massively advertised new blade coating named "Microchrome EB-7." Wilkinson, whose ads seem designed to sell swords as much as blades, still is holding on to its 52% share of the British stain less market, but it has had to lay out needed cash to double its advertising spending. "We made certain forecasts and geared our output to them," says Managing Director Roy Randolph. "Well, it has proved more difficult than we expected. Believe me, though, we don't intend to stand still...
...last thing he did to please his bewildered father, a Liverpool cotton broker who fox-hunted, was to graduate (third-class honors) in English from Cambridge. Years of wandering as a merchant seaman, a marriage in Paris, and a minor novel (Ultramarine, a Melville-and-blue-water affair) lay ahead before he fetched up in Mexico on a midget paternal subsidy...