Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main address came from Historian Bruce Catton. Appomattox, said Catton, should remind Americans that "We have one country now, but at a terrible price, cemented everlastingly together because at the end of our most terrible war the men who had fought so hard decided that they had had enough of hatred...
...houses will probably be used for undergraduates only until September, when the first unit of the Fourth house is scheduled for completion. "But expect some off-campus housing will be main, even after the Fourth House built," Miss Winslow said...
...Night. The noise of airplane engines and the violence of the Viet Cong's sneak attack on the U.S. embassy in Saigon (see THE NATION) were in sharp contrast to a curious silence on the ground in South Viet Nam. For nearly a month the Viet Cong "main force" has been lying low, refusing to tangle with the South Vietnamese army. Communist-provoked incidents have dropped from a peak of 1,020 a week during December (long before U.S. air strikes began) to 400 a week last month. In the critical Mekong Delta, South Viet Nam's prized...
...CANADA, CALIF. In this luxuriant valley eleven miles north of downtown Los Angeles, residents are making a last-ditch stand against a proposed eight-lane speedway that would cut their community in half. Running east-west alongside the town's main thoroughfare, it would link up other northern suburbs but do nothing for the town itself, seems to La Canadans little more than a ruse to collect $60 million in federal grants. The highway department claims that the projected-population figures for La Canada by 1980 necessitate the freeway. Planning Consultant Lyle Stewart retorts: "This area is built...
...balding rugby player, Courrèges took both the bouquets and brickbats in his stride, innocently denied that his main aim was to lift the skirts of the Western world. "I'm not interested in a woman's knees. What's important is that the rhythm and volume of the whole be right." He insisted that customers who would be flying skirts at three-quarter mast should wear boots to boot. "Without them," he protests, "short skirts look ridiculous...