Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Golani infantrymen met only token resistance as they pushed on to the Lebanese border. From its behind-the-lines stronghold at Kallah, tanks raced along undefended roads toward the Syrian headquarters at El Quneitra. In the central sector, the diversionary probes of the previous day expanded into a full-scale pincer movement that took Aalleiga, a pivotal point in the Syrian second line of defense, and then split into flying columns that sped north to El Quneitra and south to Boutmiye. In the south, airborne troopers leapfrogged in helicopters, quickly seizing one unsuspecting village after another, while an armored column...
With its detailed directions on how guer rilla bands striking at neighboring cities from mobile bases can precipitate full-scale revolutions in every Latin American nation, the handbook makes Castro's old tactics look almost amateurish...
...high banner painting for Expo 67. Ellsworth Kelly confesses that he never saw one of his large canvases all in one piece until it was put together in an exhibition. Some artists, such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, who work on the same billboard scale as James Rosenquist, have bought their own buildings...
...contrast, the full-scale replica of America that sailed into New York harbor last week en route to the Cup trials at Newport cost the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co. $500,000 to construct. Architects for the new America: Sparkman & Stephens, the same firm that designed Intrepid. * The Twelves get their name from a complicated rating formula that takes into consideration length, girth, sail area and freeboard, and after much mathematical hocus-pocus equals 39.37 ft., or twelve meters. * And who now has his own class named after him, the 30-ft. Shields boat, first brought...
...industry is currently adopting the argument that repeal of ASP would damage the industry and cause large-scale job cuts among semi-skilled workers. According to the industry these people are often Negroes and Puerto Ricans, who would have great difficulty finding other jobs with similar pay. The industry often points out that Newark and New Jersey would be particularly threatened...