Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scientific techniques improved, astronomers saw enough to become increasingly convinced that most planets were inhospitable to life. Yet Mars continued to provoke serious speculation, largely because it showed so many characteristics that seemed fascinatingly similar to those of earth. The red planet turned out to have an atmosphere, albeit an extremely thin one. The tilt of its axis (about 24°) is approximately the same as the earth's, thus creating seasonal changes. Its huge white polar caps suggest the presence of ice, and therefore water-a prerequisite for life as human beings know it. It also has large...
...July 20 to 26, 110 Americans died, the lowest toll so far this year. Communist attacks in III Corps, the vital area around Saigon, have dropped from a daily average of 30 in May to 25 in June and 15 in July. The other three corps areas report a similar trend. Nightly shellings of allied bases have diminished. Allied reconnaissance patrols find little or nothing. A running fight last week west of Saigon, in which 116 Communist soldiers were killed, was the sharpest battle in a month...
...predawn stillness of Athens was shattered four times one morning last week. Explosions occurred within 90 minutes in three different suburbs, but they had similar targets - autos owned by members of the American mission...
Happily, it is also one of many pest controls that can keep gardens green with out the dangers of DDT and similar chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides...
...challenge lies in the fact that lower-middle-class whites and blacks actually share quite similar economic needs: better jobs, better schools, better services, better police protection, relief from taxes. Ideally, they should band to gether, employing their collective economic and political strength to advance their common interests. Is this Utopian...