Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam's 16.5 million people, produces fully one-half of the country's food. It is also infested with Viet Cong. As long as the U.S. has concentrated most of its military muscle in other areas, the V.C. have been able to use it as their main source of new recruits and food. Last week, even as U.S. planes hit North Viet Nam with a record 197 missions in a single day, U.S. forces went into the Delta in earnest...
...dynasty and had traces of Soviet revisionism in it," declared Chen Pota at a Peking University lecture recently. Now, in line with Mao's doctrine of putting politics in command, the humanities faculties will use Mao's work as textbooks and the class struggle will be the main subject. Mao-think will even apply to the sciences; students are now revising some of the work previously done in mathematics, physics and foreign languages to match Mao's precepts...
...altitude of 50,000 ft., a bar-ostatically-triggered drogue parachute is released. In turn, the craft's main parachute is pulled open, and the astronaut descends, feet first, at 15 ft. per sec.-slow enough for a safe landing on either water or solid ground...
...main thread of the play, which could pull it all together, has eluded Mayer as it has eluded so many before him. Perhaps it no longer exists; or perhaps only a devout Tomist could discover...
...performances, let me just say that two-week Shakespeare is insanity, as Mayer must know, having barely escaped unscathed from a three-week attack on The Tempest last year. By dashing off Shakespeare, the amateur forfeits his main advantage over the professional -- the unlimited time for rehearsals that can make performances almost second nature to an actor. Under the circumstances, the cast has done quite well. There are very few bad readings, but many indifferent ones. And the pace is much too slow...