Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boys - George, Paul and John - were crammed into the Jag's back seat, and Scarfe was delivering them to TIME'S office on New Bond Street. There they were set up just as they were photographed for the cover, and put on display in a main floor window. They have been stopping crowds ever since...
...upgrading of schools and such amenities as more frequent garbage collection. Though the Senate cut $125 million from Johnson's request, it still provided $300 million more (for a total of $537 million) than the House, where a revived rural Republican-Southern Democratic coalition is the main roadblock to greater aid for the cities...
There were about 28 firemen on the scene, and a ladder truck and engine car were called from the Taylor Square fire house. The rest of the equipment came from the main fire station next to Memorial Hall...
Besides the fact that these "most-favored areas" are yet unknown, the other main factor of uncertainty centers around the Draft Act's provisions concerning the system and order of induction. Congress permitted the President to reverse the current "oldest first" order of induction and to call 19-year olds before older men (for obvious career and family reasons); but at the same time it prohibited the President's authority to institute a random selection system (a draft lottery) which would ensure that all registrants within this age group stood an equal chance of induction...
That is his main point of attack on the government-sponsored studies which the National Aeronautics and Space Administration uses to prove that people can in fact adjust to the sonic boom. The study which NASA quotes most often, by Bolt, Beranek and Newman, had subjects pushing buttons to activate an artificial boom-creating device. Although the artificial boom was as loud as a real one, the volunteers knew the boom would occur within five seconds after they pushed the button. Even among the fully-prepared subjects, almost half showed a marked increase in heart-beat as a result...