Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main Soviet objective is to outflank NATO's land-based defenses?a goal that the Russian navy has partial ly reached by penetrating the Mediterranean. In a report to the Western European Union last November, Dutch Delegate Frans Goedhart warned: "It is no longer correct to speak of the 'danger' of the Soviet Union outflanking the NATO southern flank. This 'danger' has become a reality." To the north, the Russians have also turned the Baltic into a virtual Red Sea on which their warships now outnumber NATO forces...
HUMOR needs constant airing. The main reason why the Lampoon never makes anyone really laugh out loud (I hope The Proposition cast won't be too offended by this comparison) is that its pieces, though written by individuals, must be read to the rest of the organization for peer approval. Thus there is a tendency not to include anything strikingly different from what has been accepted before for fear that someone will frown and say, "I don't think that's funny." This is why most Lampoon pieces might just as well be written by the same, mildly amusing...
Cottle has recently published a complete report on the experiment in Psychology Today. He drew five main conclusions from the data...
...Harvard Draft Project now has an office in Mem Hall and a University extension telephone. What it lacks is a coherent sense of direction. Its main organizing arm--the Harvard Draft Union--has been torn by factional struggles among SDS, hard-core resistance advocates, and "apoliticals...
...kind of 7-ft.-high, nylon-and-rubber maxiskirt, which confines the cushion of compressed air below the craft but deflects when it strikes wave tops or other obstacles. To further lessen any impact, the skirt is fringed with rubber fingers that are even more flexible than the main body of the skirt. The 19½-ft. propellers, driven by four 3,400-h.p. Rolls-Royce engines, are mounted on pylons and can be swiveled 30°, enabling them to be used with two huge air rudders in maneuvering the craft...