Word: mille
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choice was a Johnsonian sur prise in the best tradition. In the Washington rumor mill, Clifford's name was considered among the least likely of a short list headed by ex-Deputy Defense Secretary and Troubleshooter Cyrus Vance and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Nitze. His quietude and age militated against him for a job that-next to the presidency-is the crudest and most demanding job in Government...
There were many complications. Kasperak had worked in a fume-filled steel mill, had been a heavy smoker and, as a result, his lungs were leathery. They could not exchange enough oxygen to keep him going. So an incision was made in his throat and a tube inserted to supply oxygen more efficiently and to remove mucus. Kasperak's big chest was rigid; other organs showed little tendency to close in around the small heart, and the cavity filled with fluid. His liver and kidneys had been damaged by a shortage of oxygenated blood...
...Asia within the arc of their nuclear capability. One of the countries sure to be pinpointed on Chinese plotting maps is Japan, which, ironically, continues to supply Chinese buyers with the sophisticated technology that Peking needs for missilery, as in the recent sale of a vacuum furnace and rolling mill for titanium and tantalum rocket metals. Though Japan nominally subscribes to the Western list of goods forbidden for sale to the Communists, the lure of profits with the mainland has proved too great. Japan, in fact, has no investigative and inspection staff for checking on sales to China...
...GABRIEL HOUNDS by Mary Stewart. 320 pages. Mill-Morrow...
...Matson Line Heirs Mrs. William P. Roth and her son have spent $10 million on the project, lured such prestige tenants as Design Research and Trader Vic Bergeron, who put in a Mexican restaurant called Senor Pico's. Now the Roths are expanding further into an adjacent woolen mill...