Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Main Artery. Even the sounds and sights of the land soon changed as U.S. deuce-and-a-halfs, Jeeps, bulldozers, helicopters and fighter aircraft raised whirlwinds of cinnamon-colored dust and sand as white as snow. In the north, some 45,000 marines clustered around Hué, Danang and Chu Lai. The new 1st Cav settled at An Khe, just off Route 19, main artery leading to the beleaguered Central Highlands. Qui Nhon, Route 19's eastern terminus, was held by South Korea's crack 15,000-man Capital Division...
...were indeed in order. His pessimism reflects not only the plight that faces the Philippines in the next four years, but his own chances of alleviating it as well. In his successful campaign against President Diosdado Macapagal last November, Marcos made Filipino crime-smuggling, murder and government corruption-the main theme. Macapagal himself was above suspicion of foul play, but Marcos did not have to make personal accusations, for low-level crime and corruption were part of every Filipino's experience. Coupled to it was his own vibrant campaign style. Singing duets with his wife Imelda (Miss Philippines...
...Detroit's main post office, a prototype of the scanner has already processed more than 500,000 pieces of mail. As many as 36,000 letters an hour can be fed into a conveyor system that carries them past a cathode-ray tube. The tube's scanning beam locates the last line of each address, converts it to electrical impulses that are recorded on an electronic version of a scratch pad. They are then read by a computer that recognizes city, state and ZIP code characters by comparing them with 6,000 combinations of standard characters...
That is expecting a lot-but the schools are making more progress than anyone has a right to hope for. For one thing, many of them do not look like jails any more. Often set in wooded hills, their small residential cottages spaced around a main administration and classroom building, they bear a surface resemblance to private prep schools. Many have open gates, unlocked doors, barless windows that lift easily...
Except for the main titles and the cuties, almost everything in Thunderball is disappointing. The underwater scenes in the picture are well-photographed but painfully slow. The gadgetry -- one and two-man underwater sleds, a yacht that sheds its cabin to become a hydroplane, and so forth -- does not seem especially ingenious. And Bond's "dead-pan quips" are exemplified by his remark after impaling a SPECTURE agent against a tree: "I guess he got the point...