Word: swelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SINGLY and in small groups at first, then in gun-waving mobs, the retreating South Vietnamese troops streamed out of shell-torn Quang Tri city. For four days their procession down sun-baked Highway 1 continued to swell. There were soldiers on foot wearing only mud-caked underwear and with rags wrapped around their feet in place of boots. Some rode on the fenders of cars commandeered at rifle point; others clung to army trucks that careered through South Viet Nam's northern countryside with lights ablaze at midday and horns blaring. The line stretched to the horizon...
...Parking will become harder--by how much, no one is sure. Driving through the Square will probably become a chore of awesome proportions. Tenants will have to bear higher land values, which will ultimately translate into higher rents, and live with an unfamiliar sky-line. Pedestrian traffic will probably swell by half or two thirds...
...cost for this will be high. In the unlikely event that Mills gets his full 20% increase, the added cost would be $6.3 billion to $8 billion a year. Any extra benefits would swell the price still further. How will the Government pay the bill? In part the new funds will come from regular Social Security "contributions," which in the past two years, have run about $3 billion ahead of expenses. The rest will have to be raised by hitting taxpayers...
...Darrow (Fay Wray) and convinces her to come and be his leading lady. He-man first mate Jack Driscoll (Bruce Cabot) doesn't like havin' a woman around at first, but he eventually kinds falls for her. So do the island natives, who think she'd make a swell offering to Kong. So does Kong, who carries the recently kidnapped Miss Darrow off to his prehistoric home...
...lucky, ain't it swell...