Word: rim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever their leaders may say in a political vein about the U.S. stand in Viet Nam, the non-Communist countries of Asia are catching a beneficial economic fallout from American involvement in the fighting there. The need for bases, manpower and supplies is affecting economies all around the rim of the battle area. South Korea expects trade with Viet Nam to increase from $16 million last year to $70 million this year. Taiwan's dealings with Viet Nam, which totaled $40 million last year and represented 9% of all exports, may reach $55 million this year. Hong Kong...
...Parkes, Australia, 210-ft. dish antenna toward the source, known only as 3C 273,* Hazard's group recorded the precise time that its signals were eclipsed, or blotted out, by the sharp leading edge of the passing moon and the time when they reappeared from behind its trailing rim. Because the position of the moon can be accurately calculated for any given time, the Australians' "lunar occultation gave them an accurate position of the elusive radio source...
...wide. The lunar view suggested to University of Arizona Astronomer Gerald Kuiper that Luna 9 was probably resting on the floor of a small crater, that the rocks were only about a foot high, and that the horizon in the picture was actually formed by the crater's rim, apparently less than a mile away...
...side, a "display specialist" punches one button, then another; his fingers race across his varicolored panel filled with the flashing lights of disaster (see oppo site page). An outline map of the North American continent is traced in light across a large screen. Near the top, along the rim of the Arctic Ocean, clusters of lights - signifying hostile missiles - begin to move perceptibly southward...
...outward from the college's core. One pedestrian expressway points toward Netsch's yet unbuilt art and architecture building, a multilevel, polygonal structure within which students will go from floor to floor in spiral fashion as well as by vertical stairways. Even the more massive structures that rim the campus are open to the city around them. "We use the buildings as gateways," Netsch explains. As urban as the new subway station built to disgorge students right onto one of its walkways, the new Chicago Circle campus is a growing monument that acquires its expansive scale naturally from...