Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than a month, the main target of the Congo's two mercenary rescue columns had been the town of Wamba, where rebel Simbas were known to be holding some 250 white hostages. Last week the mercenaries finally made it to Wamba, and what they found confirmed their worst fears. Though 121 whites were still alive, another 28 had been brutally massacred. Most of the dead were Belgians - including Monsignor Joseph-Pierre Albert Wittebols, Bishop of Wamba. Most of the survivors were Greeks - who had paid for their lives with cash and cooperation...
...City Council will vote today to approve or disapprove plans of the Harvard Cooperative Society for a bridge over Palmer St. linking the second and third story of its new textbook annex to the main building. The bridge has been vehemently opposed by Sheldon Dietz '41, a local property owner...
...bridges off their foundations and stranded hundreds of motorists on the Red wood Highway. Almost every town along the Eel River, in the northwestern corner of the state, was under water. City officials in Rio Dell put out orders to knock down telephone and power poles to convert the main street into a landing pad for rescue helicopters. In the Indian reservation towns of Hoopa and Willow Creek, the whole population fled to the high-ground school auditorium. In other towns, the rampaging waters were too swift even for the fleet est, and people died in rivers that once were...
...even scheduled for testing last week was the plane's main feature: the in-flight ability to move its wings from a far-forward position (for short take-offs and landings) to a swept-back posture (for speed...
...heart is developed, it will probably be made of Silastic. This is the material that Houston's Surgeon Michael E. DeBakey used for the closest approximation to such an organ ever tried in a human patient. It was a substitute for the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber, and it worked for 3½ days, until the patient died of other causes (TIME...