Word: markers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Military engineers will start work late this year or early in 1968 on the barrier, known so far to the Pentagon as Project Dye Marker and immediately nicknamed "McNamara's Wall." But it will be no ordinary wall: instead of a Maginot line of concrete and steel, great tracts of rugged, mountainous jungle will be guarded by hidden electronic devices. Some, no larger than a silver dollar, can be seeded by aircraft; once in place, they will detect the movement of the smallest enemy groups and transmit warnings to gun crews miles away. "We are getting better and better...
...plumpishly attractive, brown-haired woman of 39, Shirley is 18 years retired from the extraordinary film career that began at age three and made her a millionaire at ten. Occasionally, she will catch The Littlest Rebel, Little Miss Marker or Bright Eyes on television, but, says she, "I always think of her as 'the little girl...
...guides and even parking places?the holding areas in the vicinity of busy airports. With the help of ground controllers, pilots navigate from point to point along these invisible airways by means of electronic navigational aids that provide course, distance and location information. These "navaids" range from small location-marker beacons on the ground that light a bulb on the aircraft's instrument panel as it passes overhead, to huge, long-range radar systems that track aircraft and are linked to distant air-traffic control centers by microwave...
...over the world, for instance, the new bestseller is suddenly Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, which JAMES F. COYNE comes encased in red plastic with a red-ribbon marker. At Berke ley, it is treated like an amulet by the Black Muslims; at Columbia, it is outselling everything since Henry Miller; and Bren-tano's at the Pentagon has already unloaded 1,000 copies at $1 each. A few of the buyers may be genuine sinologists, but for the vast majority it is the new camp classic...
...team before 1700 people at Watson Rink Saturday night, reversing the overtime score of the teams' first meeting. As in the Christmas Tournament, the Huskies took advantage of the Crimson's listlessness to build a 4-2 lead after two periods. But this time, Northeastern added a third-period marker to make Harvard's comeback bid fall short...