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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...despair: first a hospital, next employment for the angry kids, then a start on badly needed adult payrolls. Watkins linked jobs with community improvement and got money to spend on all three projects. He also persuaded the Los Angeles city government to let him plant vegetable gardens along water-main rights of way in the widely ducted conurbation, putting farm-bred Southern migrants to work for pay at the only jobs they know well...
...strategic reserve force of 41 divisions, which are located in the continental U.S. The Defense Department meanwhile is expected to authorize creation of a new division that, in effect, would actually strengthen the strategic reserve by bringing its force up to five full divisions. The U.S. will continue to main tain five divisions in West Germany and two in Korea...
Inventory Cushion. The Javelin is the first of the 1968-model cars scheduled for official unveiling between now and mid-September. The new year does not figure to be startling in its innovations. The Javelin's main rival as a conversation piece is likely to be Chevrolet's Corvette, which will feature a sleeker silhouette and a Ferrari-like snout. Mercury will introduce its new Montego, which will essentially be an elongated Comet. Dodge will add some curves to its slow-selling Charger. Such features as cover-up headlights will become even more familiar. And to comply with...
...Paper-craft. He was willing to innovate; among other things, he helped pioneer the change from flat-folded Christmas wrappings to those sold by the roll. His stock in trade is the traditional design -Santa Claus, the Christmas tree, Donner, Blitzen, etc. This has helped him to become the main supplier of Christmas wrapping paper to tradition-minded giants like Sears, Roebuck...
Brazil's Rio Negro, one of the Amazon's main tributaries, is truly black...