Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Loeb Drama Center has announced its Spring-term main-stage productions...
...enforcement powers for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and stronger federal protection for those exercising civil rights. As important as anything in the two messages was the tone of expanded economic opportunity and sharper equal-rights legislation, which in all likelihood will be two of the President's main campaign themes...
...commander of the armed forces, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, had already paid his debt: shortly after his arrest last fall, Radio Cairo announced that he had poisoned himself, a report received with great skepticism. The twelve in court last week were accused of being Amer's main conspirators. Among them: Shams Badran, Minister of War during the conflict with Israel; Abbas Radwan, former Minister of the Interior; Salah Nasr, former chief of Nasser's intelligence service; and Galal Haridi, who had commanded Nasser's elite so-called "storm troops...
Beyond the sound barrier, the main obstacle to commercial supersonic flight is the miles-wide swath of broken windows, cracked plaster, frazzled nerves and aching eardrums that might be left behind by sonic boom. Resigned to it, airlines are planning either routes over water and desert or subsonic speeds over populated areas. Either solution could cut deeply into the time-distance economies that could otherwise be gained by flying huge planes faster than the speed of sound...
...career woman in the book business, she thus distinguishes between reading books and nonreading books much as an alcoholic or a barman would describe bourbon and branch water as a drink and Metrecal as a non-drink-liquid food, perhaps. In any event, the nonreading category consists of two main classes, the "how-to" and the "self-help." After the Bible, whose varied editions and vast sales are beyond specific reckoning, the top sellers of all time among all books (see box) are Dr. Benjamin Spock's The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care and the Better...