Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shelter. Fed like a pulsating dinner into the maw of investigative machinery, processed by robots in white coats, Spindrift nurses a wholly rational resentment of his conversion into a thing. "I don't think you really believe we're human beings at all," he protests to the young woman wiring his head to an electroencephalograph. "Do you mind?" she says. "I've got my work to do." This is clearly no place for a clear head. With his skull still gleaming from a preoperative shave, Spindrift swipes a wardrobe and steals back into the world...
...drastic reassessment of the social organization and civilization of pre-Neanderthal man in Europe. Until now, working with the meager data available, scientists have been convinced that, unlike the men who inhabited the Riviera site, the creatures of the Second Interglacial Period lived in the open or sought shelter in caves. They were clearly far more civilized than that...
...pristine Cam Ranh Bay, where czarist Russia's fleet took shelter just before its crushing defeat by the Japanese navy in 1905, combat engineers turned the natural harbor into a major port. Twenty miles down the coast, the "Screaming Eagles" of the 101st Airborne Brigade began operating as a mobile strike force. In the guerrilla-infested jungles around Saigon prowled the 1st Infantry Division ("Big Red One"), the 173rd Airborne, a 1,200-man battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment, a 250-man New Zealand artillery unit...
Brew described the remains as "overlapping circles of postholes that were formed by the butts of upright branches used to make the shelter." The prehistoric huts were probably "much like a modern Apache wikiup, a type of Indian hut used in the West," Brew said...
...billion) agreed to acquire ABC in a move that, if it goes through as expected, will produce a new electronics-entertainment colossus. The combination would outrank Radio Corp. of America (1964 sales: $1.8 billion) and its NBC subsidiary, leave CBS as the only major network without a big corporate shelter...