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...transportation at Dong Ha was three dusty U.S. Marine trucks waiting for passengers on an other plane. The drivers were willing to let the candidates hitch a ride, but al most to a man, the travelers said it was beneath their dignity to roll into Quang Tri aboard such nondescript vehicles...
...Many of the VEB's early routes were propaganda-oriented, and often East German ships returned home ideologically full but physically empty. Not until 1962 did the company turn all that enterprise toward pure profitmaking. In that year, Rumanian-born Eduard Zimmermann, now 38, who rose from a nondescript post as a translator for a Russian-East German shipping control board, was named VEB's general director. Zimmermann cast aside a good many Communist shibboleths. Under him, East Germany has modernized shipyards and ports, built mechanized ships, gained an expanding share of East-bloc shipping...
...Vanessa. Tackling a made-to-measure role, Actress Redgrave shows that she has inherited a fair share of the family talent along with the lack-looks of a backstairs maid. As Georgy she is dumpy, vaguely prognathous, warm and plain as a suet pudding. Her figure is so nondescript that she paws through heaps of female finery with the defeatist air of a girl attempting to dress up an old packing crate as a Louis XV commode...
Intimate Secrets. Mystery remained. When optical astronomers turned their huge glass eyes on some of the areas of sky manned by radio astronomers as sources of powerful emissions, they found only assortments of faint, nondescript stars. Then, in 1960, aided by pinpoint data supplied by Cambridge University's radio astronomers, and Caltech's Owens Valley Observatory, Caltech astronomers discovered that one stream of powerful signals was coming from what appeared to be a small, faint star. During the next few years, as radio telescopes continued to supply increasingly precise data, the California astronomers discovered three more faint, mysterious...
Robert Coles was trained as a child psychiatrist, and is now engaged in research with a base at the University Health Services. He also teaches a section of Professor Erik Erikson's undergraduate course, "The Human Life Cycle." His office is in the basement of a nondescript Harvard building. It is filled with books from the social sciences, poetry, and fiction, and the walls are covered with pictures of Southern school children and migrant workers. He writes more articles, of consistently high quality, than any man I know...