Word: mili
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Between them, the President, McNamara and the J.C.S. have chosen a battery of U.S. defense positions that may well affect the safety of the world for decades. McNamara says that revolutionary changes have been "driven into the bedrock" of the nation's mili tary base...
...bought in 1913 for only $350. Now valued at $250,000 by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, it is perhaps one more example of the public catching up with revolutionary art. But its technique of multiple exposures bridges the gap between Muybridge's galloping horses and Gjon Mili's stroboscopic studies of dancers. And even Du champ's greatest folly-dropping pieces of thread on the canvas and varnishing them where they fell-dramatized the importance that chance plays in painting, and seems an extraordinarily lucky hunch to a generation familiar with Jackson Pollock's drip...
Glueck never learned to like a mili tary escort, but he made the best of the situation by picking his guards from the Israeli army's large supply of passionate amateur archaeologists. From the first, his survey showed what he had hoped: that the Negev had been inhabited at many periods of history. It was never thickly settled, but everywhere there was evidence that its population had built up periodically in times of political stability. Then came war and disorder, and the Negev declined into nomadism. Probably its highest point came when a talented Arabian people, the Nabatae...
...suspected Colonel Mohammed Hariri, chief of the southern front command, of being a top conspirator and ordered him sent out of the country as military attaché to Jordan. Hariri refused to go, and the entire southern command backed him up. An armored column moved out from the Badani mili tary camp and entered Damascus, where the tanks patrolling the streets quickly joined the rebels. Scarcely a shot was fired as Syria changed its allegiance. Tempers were so cool that President Koudsi was allowed to remain at home with his family. Premier Khaled El-Azm. who lived beside the Turkish...
...land. Banks were closed, stock exchanges locked. In Buenos Aires, the country's dominant, deeply conservative military men held a series of nonstop meetings trying to decide what to do about the chaos and Frondizi - whether to keep him on or depose him in favor of a flat mili tary rule...