Word: strips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dawn broke, a tardy Vietnamese search group set off in chase, but the rebels were nowhere to be found. It remained only to clear the debris from Bienhoa's strip-blackened hulks of the wrecked planes, the bodies of the dead from the barracks, and the few dud mortar shells that had fallen without exploding. Ironically, they bore the marking "Made in USA, 1944" and were apparently part of the booty captured by the Communists when the French surrendered...
...held out the lure of low taxes, cheap labor and liberal tariff treaties with Central American common market countries. Business responded. Arrow Shirts, Colgate-Palmolive, and General Mills, for example, plan expansion of their facilities. And there are newcomers. International Nickel hopes to set up a $60 million strip mine, Texaco is building a $10 million refinery, and Kern Foods is making Guatemala its distribution center for Central America...
...United Church's other listening ministers is far removed from that of most clerics. In Las Vegas, the Rev. Richard Mawson is a full-time desk clerk at the Sands Hotel, and works after hours with the people he meets in the hotels and casinos along The Strip. The Rev. Frank Evans, a topflight amateur skier, lives and works at California's famed Squaw Valley ski resort; his tactful counseling has helped save dozens of faltering marriages...
Kelly's recent cartoons have dealt with a political group called the "Jack Acid Society." Many people who have written him letters about the strip thought he was satirizing Goldwater, he said, but he explained that his primary target was extremist citizens' groups...
...Stewardess Suzanne Pleshette, trades a quip or two. Suddenly a bell clangs in the cockpit, a light blinks a warning on the control panel. "Engine blew," snaps Taylor. In two-engine-aircraft dramas, troubles never come singly. The tower reports three other planes blocking the path back to the strip. The radio goes dead. And of course Engine No. 2 conks out. Flight 22 crash-lands on a deserted beach, bellies safely down and plows through the sand-only to hit an abandoned pier and incinerate...