Word: modell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Typical of the thoroughness of the Special Forces is a model village they have constructed at Pak Chong for practicing search-and-seizure tactics. Its hazards are real and in earnest. When the unsuspecting Thai trainees come through the gate, snipers and mantraps of sharpened pungi stakes greet them. Targets suddenly pop up. As the Thais raise their rifles, the earth nearby explodes from hidden mines-a sequence that has caused many Thai soldiers initially to drop their rifles in fright. But there is more to the Green Beret village than shooting. The Thais learn the guerrilla's subtleties...
...known as Twiggy. Stern threw a welcoming blast for Twiggy when she arrived in the U.S. with plans to expand her minifashion career by peddling some $1,000,000 worth of her clothes in department stores across the nation and picking up an occasional $120 per hour as a model. At a loss to explain why anyone would pay that much to take her picture, Twiggy said objectively: "Hit's not really wot you call a figger...
...Matra, a missile company that recently won the $25 million, nine-nation ESRO (for European Space Research Organization) contract to build a Continental satellite. Besides its space activities, Matra has organized an auto subsidiary that will race cars at Le Mans this year; is already producing a commercial sports model that drew raves at the last Geneva Auto Show...
...doing its share to promote the kind of community health programs first suggested by Dr. Farnsworth six years ago. Dr. Phillip R. Lee, assistant secretary of HEW for Health and Scientific Affairs, quoted extensively from a speech in which Dr. Farnsworth had suggested using college health services as model for community efforts
...revised suburban life. The Washington area will quadruple its size by the year 2000. As it grows, its suburbs will become more than bedrooms for the city. Implicit in the figures of city expansion is the spreading of the city's functions into the suburbs. And developing a model plan for this new type of suburb is as crucial as finding a model for in-city redevelopment...