Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invest that much in a line 1,800 miles north of. the continent's main industrial centers. Priority went instead to the Pinetree line of radar and fighter control stations north of the U.S. border, and to the mid-Canada line of automatic warning devices along the 55th parallel...
International Incident. To avoid serious clashes, Britain, Argentina and Chile signed an agreement in 1949 to refrain from sending warships south of the 60th parallel. Last month a Foreign Office spokesman in London issued a warning that Britain might be forced to disregard the three-nation pact if "incidents" kept occurring in Antarctica. The point was that the General San Martin's new base not only lay well within Britain's claimed slice of Antarctica but was near the announced starting point of a planned British-New Zealand attempt to make the first overland trek across the antarctic...
Instead of victory, what did the truce yield? "We left an enemy on the 38th parallel, right where he started." lamented Clark. "True, we had stopped his immediate aggression to take over South Korea, but we left him there better trained...We left him there arrogant. He had made the people behind the Iron Curtain think that he had won a victory, and we left him ready and poised to strike again, as he did in Indo-China...
...tour through the rice belt south of the 17th parallel, Premier Ngo Dinh Diem last week got his second big ovation from his people. Rice growers thronged around him, beating gongs; soldiers competed to eat at his table; refugees chaired him around their hovels in informal marches of triumph. Diem took his reception spiritedly, with none of his celebrated reticence, enjoying crayfish that had been smuggled south to him from the Communist North, and a Confucian ballet performed by 32 silk-clad girls. Diem also impressed the villagers by his coolness when his ceremonial barge, overloaded with admirers who clambered...
With the exception, then, of the few shots of local geography, 6 Bridges to Cross is twice removed from reality. Its story is based on a recent novel, The Anatomy of a Crime, which author Joseph F. Dinneen claims to be "a startling parallel" to the unsolved bank's robbery of five years ago. Despite its literary deficiencies, the book contains some interesting insights into the relationships between the F.B.I. and local authorities and between the police and their "stool pigeons"; in short, it is excellent material for a movie, or rather it was before being distorted in 6 Bridges...