Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told, since Sukarno first sent his guerrillas into Malaya last August, 55 have been killed and 243 captured; last week Malaysian security officials claimed that only one invader was unaccounted for. The main reason for the Indonesians' lack of success has been Britain's firm determination-continued by the Labor government-to honor her treaty obligations for the defense of Malaysia. In the past six months Britain has doubled her troop strength in Malaysia, to some 20,000, and British tommies are doing most of the actual fighting in the bitter little...
...Charles, 16, and Princess Anne, 14, Mum and Dad might have known what to expect. To celebrate the holidays, the royal rockers rolled back the red carpet in the drawing room of Windsor Castle, then asked 120 chums over for a dinner of hors d'oeuvres and turkey. Main course was the frug, to the big beat played for Their Highnesses by a disk jockey who rents himself and his $3,000 hi-fi rig for just such occasions. Party over, host and hostess hopped off with Prince Philip to Liechtenstein for a few days of skiing...
...qualification, Ohio State demanded B.A.s acquired with B-minus or better averages from accredited schools, and the Air Force picked only men who passed muster. One professor finds the students "a shade above those I've had on the main campus." The dropout rate at Minuteman U. is 19% a year, compared with a 40% attrition rate among all Ohio State graduate students, even though the men must juggle the time for homework and classes with family demands and additional Air Force requirements such as technical training, military tests, and logging enough flying time to maintain their pilot status...
While half a dozen ordinary cameras are watching the main action, an isolated camera or two will zero in on one player and exclusively follow him in a developing play. The isolated camera records its pictures on tape. If the selected player proves to have been the key man on the play, his performance is rerun for the audience, while the teams are huddling for the next play...
...walked through children's ready-to-wear. "Not a soul around to wait on him. The salespeople think that with 150,000 customers a day, if they lose one it makes no difference." He grumped over the lack of service in the furniture department ("Looks like the Maine woods"), chewed out a salesman in the shirt department for not being quick enough. He had one word - "awful" - for some orange-colored vases on sale on the eighth floor, and viewed with disdain the incandescent ladies' stockings displayed on the main floor: "That's not my idea...