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...Quito and 170 miles away in the main port of Guayaquil, thousands of high school and university students, representing a wide swath of political orientation, poured into downtown streets, slinging rocks and chanting "Abajo la dictadura!" and "Viva la constitución!" Army troops and marines moved in with tear gas and clubs, arresting scores of demonstrators. Sixteen political leaders were rounded up and deported, and in Guayaquil, where two high school students were killed by stray bullets, the junta declared martial...
...afternoon of April 22, 1915, when German infantrymen gave the world its first whiff of poison-gas warfare by sending a huge, grey-green cloud of noxious chlorine rolling over two French divisions in the trenches at Ypres, killing 5,000, incapacitating 10,000, and cutting a 31-mile swath in Allied lines. There were the later bar rages of phosgene, chloropicrin, and particularly, of mustard...
...Wide Swath. There was a time not too long ago when President John Kennedy, relaxing with friends in the oval office, would grin innocently and murmur, "Say, whatever became of Lyndon Johnson?" That crack always got a good laugh, for it was a succinct expression of the oblivion into which Johnson had fallen as Vice President...
...Kennedy's domestic program to fruition with great skill. The tax cut, the civil rights bill and the federal pay raise-all were products of the resoluteness with which Johnson as sumed his unaccustomed leadership. That leadership paid him a dividend: the respect and confidence of a wide swath of the U.S. business community, which recognized in Johnson a strong strain of prudence in economic affairs. From these successes-from out of the shadow of Jack Kennedy-emerged still a different, a bolder man, whose aim it was to imprint the Johnson character on the one year remaining...
Nimbus passes close to the earth's poles instead of following an equatorial orbit as Tiros did, thus covers a new 1,500-mile-wide swath of the earth ev ery 100 minutes. Nimbus can photograph every square mile of earth twice a day; special infra-red radiometers shoot "pictures" of the dark surfaces...