Word: path
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bureau of Land Management used almost 2,000 men to combat the fires. Six hundred men equipped with bulldozers, helicopters and Army personnel carriers struggled to contain the West Fork holocaust by bulldozing a line in its path. Smoke jumpers, some of them imported from Montana, parachuted into the forests with digging equipment; six converted B-25 bombers dropped chemical retardants on the fires. 150 Years to Grow. Normally, rain controls the blazes that start each summer, but this has been an extraordinarily dry season for Alaska. Chicken, for example, has had no rain since early May. Though lightning started...
Mauve silk umbrellas were hoisted over the heads of General and Madame de Gaulle, while 200 dusky, nubile Cambodian maidens scattered jasmine petals from beaten-silver bowls in their path. The entire Cambodian jet air force-four null - flew past to take De Gaulle's salute...
When it finally splashed into the Pacific southeast of Wake Island, the charred Apollo was 230 miles short of the recovery carrier Hornet. But for all practical purposes, it was on target. It was obviously ready for the next step on its path to the moon...
...Brazil's National Education Council recently proposed a law requiring the country's 18 federal universities to present plans for reorganization or lose federal funds. Until these programs bear results, concludes Alberto Lleras Camargo, former President of Colombia, Latin American schools will continue "on a chaotic path that is almost classic in the world-universities of authorities without authority and students who do not want to study, locked in a constant and sterile battle...
With reporters prowling the area, Dairy Farmer Walter Bridge, who owns one of the two primitive roads leading to the beach, closed the path when newspapers publicized the fact that he was charging $1 for parking. That left only one access road through the jointly owned property of two avowed anti-nudists, and last week this too was closed with an armed guard to bar the way. But nothing seemed to daunt the enthusiastic nudists, who continued arriving wave on wave. Some made their way around the southern promontory at low tide; others formed human chains down the dangerous cliffside...