Word: shelters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even when they live outdoors for days on end with only tents for shelter, men can prove more rugged than their machines. Last week 6,000 weary G.I.s trekked back to the warmth of barracks after a fortnight of war games across 642,000 acres of frozen Alaskan muskeg 128 miles below the Arctic Circle. Though they were engaged in the coldest winter maneuvers on record, only eight soldiers had been hospitalized briefly for frostbite and 46 others treated for minor freezing pains (six men died in accidents not connected with the cold). At the same time, 100 cold-soaked...
Academic freedom is obviously of great importance. But it was not the issue here. Bruening understood that it was more important for him to come to a friendly understanding with Afro--which he did--than to shelter himself behind his academic dignity and refuse to change his syllabus...
...Marine tank grinding through the rubble took a B40 rocket in the turret and pulled back. The crew climbed out, wounded, and were immediately replaced by others; the new men did not even bother to wipe the blood from the inside of the tank. The house Greenway took shelter in is empty now, and a woman nearby shrieks at a visitor: "All dead, all dead! Go away...
...TIME Correspondent John Blashill discovered that the village is becoming resigned to failure. But eyes flash when townsmen talk about the U.S. Air Force. They concede that the U.S., which promised to leave Palomares "just the way we found it," was generous with emergency payments for food, clothing and shelter. When 644 damage claims were later filed, they add, the Air Force and the Spanish government turned from Midas into pinchpenny...
...furniture and housing exhibits make the strongest case for a new plastic aesthetic. Obviously we all need shelter and seating. And plastic furniture and houses will be the cheapest of the lovely when they graduate from the avant garde to serious mass production. Pouring plastics into molds can be a very cheap method of producing anything, not just toys. And plastic can have a fine surface formed in molding, so it requires no costly hand finishing...