Word: net
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SPECTRUM (NET, 8-8:30 p.m.).* "Abu Simbel" tells how the ancient temples of Ramses II were saved from the rising waters of the Nile River which rose during construction of the Aswan High...
SOUNDS OF SUMMER (NET...
Tuesday, June 17 NET FESTIVAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). This documentary looks into the life and work of Author Henry Miller, tracing him through his expatriate days in Paris and calling on him (along with Authors Lawrence Durrell and Anais Nin) at his present home in Los Angeles...
...June 3, Evans was posted with four other destroyers as an antisubmarine net 3,000 to 10,000 yards off the bow of Melbourne. The carrier was scheduled to begin air operations at 3:30 a.m., and ordered Evans to change her position to 1,000 yards astern. In this station, the destroyer could rescue any fliers who hit the water. Although such close-in maneuvering is necessarily hazardous, Evans had made similar position changes earlier in the exercises without mishap. This time, inexplicably, the destroyer cruised right into the path of the massive carrier. The heavy steel prow...
Strong's writing is so artless it could make any other writer nervous. I feel like a lead-footed groundling watching a tightrope-walker without a net. But more important than the sheer virtuosity is the fact that the writing captures a true feeling and recalls a real time...