Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were lots of them: Cairo, Ill., for example, at the crucial confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi, had dikes that peered down on the city's tallest building. But eventually the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began working out an integrated flood-control system for the whole river network...
...West German TV network last week carried a 65-minute Eichmann documentary that pulled no punches, showing everything from naked men and women being pushed into a gas chamber to a sequence of hundreds of victims literally running into a long trench and then being shot dead by SS men. Cried a 24-year-old German girl: "What are we supposed to say? Must we proclaim forever that we are guilty? What more is there to say of such horror...
...have traditionally run Greece. Instead, he is the son of a schoolteacher from Macedonia, which Athens sophisticates consider Endsville. But Karamanlis has restored order to Greece's turbulent postwar politics, and stability to its economy. In his six years as Prime Minister, he has built a modern highway network that connects Athens and Salonica with hundreds of villages that once were far from the main drag, brought electricity to hundreds of thousands of Greeks who never had known anything but candles, got the shipyards going, and brought strength to the nation's banks. Today Greece's drachma...
...crack troops waited days for orders before going to the help of besieged villages. Thao led them into action himself in his Jeep. Where the roads ended, Thao and his men paddled off by canoe in silent search of the enemy. Thao set up a Communist-style intelligence network, paying peasants liberally for information on guerrilla moves...
General Motors replaced Procter & Gamble as the nation's biggest advertiser in magazines, farm periodicals, network television and Sunday newspaper supplements in 1960, according to an Advertising Age survey...