Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this idyllic barter will last very long. Says Professor Ernst Halperin, a Latin America expert currently lecturing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "The Russians are not much interested in delivering economic assistance to countries they cannot control. But arms are a completely different question. They are the Russians' main instrument of expansion into an area, as they showed in Guatemala in 1954 and a year later in Egypt...
...immediate economic peril comes from Hong Kong's main foreign friends. Fully 95% of the colony's manufactured items are exported, and half of them are in textiles. Threats of U.S. restrictions on imports have stimulated many manufacturers to diversify into plastics, toys and wigs. Says P. Y. Tang, a textile millionaire: "The disturbances of 1967 did not worry me at all. They didn't hurt us. But quotas on our goods abroad do worry...
...MAIN stimulus for a rock group, however, remains the audience response it gets. In this respect too, Boston's crowds have come to be highly regarded. Typical was B. B. King's reaction of unbounded delight at his audience's warmth and appreciation when he was last at the Tea Party. People who know say that B.B., who is always expansive and easy to please, had never been so moved in his life...
...BUILDING and the whole of the main dance hall of the Ark, a newly opened club, is much more interesting than the Tea Party's box-like shape. Not surprisingly, the major emphasis at the Ark is on creating an elaborate and stylized fantasy environment, with the music as more a contributing than dominating factor. This effort at atmosphere is sometimes pursued a little too relentlessly but the overall result is nevertheless an interesting, sometimes fascinating, blend of modern multi-media techniques...
...walls curve and sway, the floor winds round and round in ramps that dip and rise. Most of the ground is covered in thick blue carpeting expect for the main dance floor, which is to be painted in bright colors. With all this structural complexity there is much acoustic modulation. The sound has definite variations in texture (depending on where you are in the building) though the volume is never weak anywhere, owing to the incredibly expensive and sophisticated sound system that the club uses. Surprisingly the system sounds best when records are being played between sets...