Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this purpose have been concentrated on the two coasts. In fact, 59% of them have gone to just three states−California (41.3%), New York (12.1%) and Massachusetts (5.7%). But there are other gainers. Florida's Cape Canaveral, not so long ago a little-known stretch of sand, is now an international dateline. Houston, near the water route to Canaveral and New Orleans, has lately been awarded the $90 million Manned Spacecraft Center, and the fast-growing city, already the nation's seventh largest at 938,219, now expects to make a quantum jump...
...several of the scenes (especially the single combat of the Cid and another king's champion) have all the subtle tints and shadings of a medieval triptych. Moreover, the composition of even the battle scenes was obviously planned, so that they are much more impressive than the usual sand-box pandemonium of the run-of-the-mill spectacular...
...brute stamina is acceptable. The idea is to accumulate a staggering number of "events" in the course of a day. A lawyer friend visiting the Robert Kennedys gained favorable attention by participating in five events before breakfast; he had reached 14-from trampoline-jumping to eating a sandwich with sand in it-before the day was over. Astronaut John Glenn piled up favorable mention by bicycle riding, swimming, playing touch football and baseball, falling into the bay while water-skiing with Jackie, and barely ducking a crashing boom after he hesitated for a moment in carrying out the President...
...congressional grilling as Oppenheimer did when queried about his Communist connections. But Strauss's critics should beware of charging him with arrogance; it was part and parcel of the doggedness that led Strauss to fight for the hydrogen bomb when more adaptable people had their heads in the sand...
...Sand Pagodas. General Ne Win's attitude toward Communism is somewhat ambivalent. In 1958, after he took over the government from mystical Premier U Nu, the general cracked down on the Reds. Two years ago, he stepped aside when U Nu overwhelmingly won a general election, but the Buddhist Premier ran the country so inefficiently and eccentrically (once he issued detailed orders for constructing 60,000 pagodas of sand in a single day) that Ne Win bounced back to power in a coup d'etat last March. He dissolved the Parliament and Supreme Court, and rules through...