Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHAT is the relationship between the Mason-Dixon line, the DMZ, the China Wall, the 38th parallel and the Berlin Wall? What do the words Realpolitik and denouement mean...
...Chicago, some 2,000 New Left radicals met in a "National Conference for New Politics," where Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr. drew the familiar parallel between domestic ills and involvement in Viet Nam. He added: "Nothing more clearly demonstrates our nation's abuse of military power than our tragic adventure in Viet Nam. This war has played havoc with the destiny of the entire world...
...added precaution, pilots have been ordered to make their bombing runs parallel to the frontier...
...sedans; in the past seven years sedans have been designed to be as sporty as convertibles. Yet there is no cause for real alarm. With the increasing number of European sports cars in America, wind-in-the-face driving is not doomed. Further, there is an auto industry parallel to the current safety campaign as it seems to have affected convertible sales. During 1937-39 the industry became very safety conscious, practically discontinued convertible models. By 1940 the trend was broken and all makes were offering convertible models and the industry-wide proportion was at its 1936 rate. If history...
...ever. He did not want the planes to come in on their bombing runs headed toward Chinese territory. So close were the targets that in a matter of seconds the supersonic jets could have crossed into China. The President finally accepted the tactic of having the planes come in parallel to the border-but only after he was convinced that they would thereby run the least risk from antiaircraft fire. The main concern, however, was with the broader implications. "A bomb near the Chinese border," says the President, "had better have civil authority...