Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Army envisions it, MAR control centers across the U.S. will stand sentry duty against ICBM attacks. A MAR center outside New York City, for example, will cover the East Coast from New England to Washington. Each center will have a three-story, underground, concrete-and-steel residence for computers assessing the information given by the radar beams...
...over." In an instant, everything came unbuttoned: Communist mortar fire sent hot shrapnel up the village streets, recoilless-rifle shells slammed home, the night air buzzed with bullets. Then out of the ground fog swarmed wave upon wave of Viet Cong shock troops-some clad incongruously in breechclouts and steel helmets, all armed either with grenades, automatic rifles or Chinese flamethrowers...
...initials were printed on armbands and steel helmets, on flags and on the hoods of patrolling Jeeps. "OEA," the Spanish abbreviation for the Organization of American States, signaled a growing hemispheric presence and new responsibility in the scarred city of Santo Domingo...
...hooking up pig livers to human patients. He and his colleagues chose eight patients in the last stages of liver coma and set up their operations as they would have for transplants. Each time, they removed the pig's liver and placed it in a steel perfusion chamber alongside the patient...
...BUSINESS & EDUCATION: "Many educational institutions have become businesses and factories, while many businesses have become fine educational institutions. You can do just as much educating in the steel or food business as you can in the educational system. By measuring everybody equally, the university becomes a factory, destroying motivation and giving the kids something to complain about. But business is the great instructor...