Word: parallele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Navy combined for a two-wave strike at an ammunition depot at Phuvan and a supply staging area at Vinhson. Nearly 120 planes from land and sea pounded the two targets with 750-Ib. bombs, 20-mm. cannon and rockets. It was the third air strike above the 17th parallel in six days...
...beyond for destruction if necessary. All last week U.S. bombers flew out of Danang with South Vietnamese Skyraiders on "mystery" missions-mystery in the sense that officials refused to say whether they had been hitting Viet Cong units in South Viet Nam or bases north of the 17th parallel...
...this pattern of infiltration has not emerged in South Viet Nam, but to veterans of the last parallel, the threat was obvious. The immediate problem is one of cost-both in money and in terms of human endurance. At the present rate of influx, the U.S. and South Viet Nam must spend $12,500 a day merely to keep the newcomers in rice and nuoc nam, the rancid fish sauce that provides the Vietnamese with protein. Housing is so short that many of the refugees can find no quarters at all and must sleep in the open. Many others have...
...fits into the slot but does not lock there-nothing but the car's weight keeps it in place. Power is provided by electric current picked up by brushes that run along the metal strips flanking the slot. Race tracks have from four to six slots running parallel, each connected to a rheostat to enable the "driver" to control the car's speed. Herein lies the skill; going into a turn too fast will result in a "spin-out," as it does in a real...
...lintels had lain in the basement since 1945. This week he will open to the public the Met's new Far Eastern and Islamic galleries (color pages, following), with great halls of giant buddhas that seem to ring with temple gongs, and a collection of Islamic art without parallel in any of the world's museums outside of Istanbul's Topkapi...