Word: shell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...themselves, under McNamara's prodding, have actually become enthusiastic about saving money. The Navy, planning to buy 1,400 Sparrow air-to-air missiles, found it already had enough, scrapped the order at a saving of $45 million. The Marine Corps found it could adapt Army 120-mm. shells for use in its M103 tanks at a cost of 32#162 per shell instead of paying $95 each for new ones. The Army decided it could get along with $1,200,000 less worth of insect repellent than it had ordered. The Air Force learned that it could safely...
...square logs-just in time to let the morning torrent of traffic flood through. Can Tokyo possibly finish the building job by October? There have been doubters. Workmen are still scrambling all over the swooping, tent-shaped roof of the vast Olympic swimming pool and the upward-spiraling conch-shell roof of the Olympic basketball court. A fleet of five truck-trailer, mobile public rest rooms is still under construction for the Olympic games area (nobody seemed to have included enough public toilets in the original building plans), and in the hope of stopping a practice that might offend foreign...
...Crimson heavyweight crew took a leisurely paddle on New York's Orchard Bench Lagoon Wednesday morning and firmly established themselves as the shell to beat in the Olympic Trials...
Last week there was more violence, and three more victims may have been added to the grim roster. They were two young white men and a Negro youth, all civil rights workers, missing in the murky, snake-infested swamps of eastern Mississippi, where the charred shell of their Ford station wagon was found...
Harvard, which has polished off every major crew in the East, faces two major hurdles in the four-day trials. The most formidable is the unbeaten University of California, which utilizes the revolutionary short, high-speed stroke with which a German, shell dethroned the U.S. in the 1960 Olympics...