Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fine poet who, in his own terms, was 'conscience-bound' to stay away." Author John Hersey prefaced his reading from Hiroshima with these words: "I read these passages on behalf of the great number of citizens who have become alarmed in recent weeks by the sight of fire begetting fire. Let these words be a reminder. The step from one degree of violence to the next is imperceptibly taken, and cannot be taken back. The end point of these little steps is horror and oblivion . . . Wars have a way of getting out of hand...
...from a 106-mm. recoilless rifle. Near by, a careening rebel scout car ran into a barrage of M-14 fire that wounded two men riding in the rear. "I wasn't ready to start this crap again," muttered a U.S. paratrooper. He then squinted through his rifle sight and started working over a sniper-infested schoolhouse down the street...
...power, there had never been a rocket launch like it. From Complex 40 at Cape Kennedy last week, Air Force Titan IIIC, the heaviest and most powerful rocket system ever launched, blasted off in a mighty torrent of flame and smoke, and with a deafening roar soared out of sight. Though U.S. hopes to close the rocket gap with the Soviet Union rode on the new Titan, the competition this time was not so much international as it was between solid rocket fuels and liquids...
...WEST GERMANY. No end of the ten-year boom is in sight. Fueled by tax cuts, high investment and consumer spending, German prosperity bolsters the rest of the Common Market. One weakness: labor shortages are inhibiting industrial growth...
...comedy more than two hours long, some of the sight gags, chase sequences and romantic interludes add more weight than wit; and an aged running joke about German militarism threatens at moments to send the show into a nosedive. But the day is nearly always saved by an inspired stroke of slapstick, a device wielded with mighty effect by Gert Frobe as Germany's Colonel von Holstein. Frobe faces his French foe (Jean-Pierre Cassel) in a mad duel fought with blunderbusses from a pair of balloons bobbing above a drainage pond. The major casualty is Sordi, whose test...