Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...magic, thick woods had been torn down, empty fields were clustered with concrete mixing plants, fuel tanks and mess halls. Chillingly clear to the expert eye were some 40 slim, 52-ft., medium-range missiles, many of them already angled up on their mobile launchers and pointed at the U.S. mainland. With an estimated range of 1,200 miles, these missiles, armed with one-megaton warheads, could reach Houston. St. Louis -or Washington. The bases were located at about ten spots, including Sagua la Grande and Remedios on the northern coast, and San Cristobal and Guanajay on the western...
...Rages. Living alumni still shiver at the memory of lean, eagle-beaked Alfred E. Stearns, the devout, athletic zealot who ruled Andover for 30 years prior to 1933. Stearns hired the fabled Latinist Georgie Hinman, who jabbed penknives into his wooden leg, chewed pencils in half, caromed erasers off thick skulls, and made students flush bad translations down the toilets. Yet it was also Stearns who steered Andover toward opulence. In 1908 he took over the seminary's buildings when that institution fell on bad times and slunk off to Harvard. He raised $1,000,000 for teachers...
Speaking in a thick Southern drawl, the 26-year-old attorney described his first meeting with Meredith in January of 1961. "I had just addressed a group at Jackson State College," a Negro institution. "A young man in a black leather jacket and a black leather cap stood up and asked me, 'How do we know you're not a traitor? How do we know you're not paid by the Citizens' Councils?'" The young man was James Meredith...
Theoretically, the I.C.C. has the authority to check on all alleged violations of the Geneva accord. But in Laos' thick jungles, such transgressions are difficult to prove. "People talk about the Ho Chi Minh trail back into North Viet Nam as though it were the New Jersey Turnpike." said Major General Reuben Tucker, chief of the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group in Laos, just before leaving. "It's actually a complex system of trails in dense jungle, nearly impossible to penetrate and move around in." While fighting has come to a standstill, the U.S. is not taken...
...main problem of lakemaking in arid areas is not in getting the water-it is almost always to be had by deep drilling -but in holding it. The new solution is a lake lining of seepage-proof polyethylene plastic only six millimeters thick (asphalt and clay break up under water after a time; cement is too expensive). The two top companies in the field, both in California, are Palco, Inc. of Indio and Kepner Plastics of Torrance. In a bulldozed lake basin, plastic is laid down in strips up to 40 ft. wide and 400 ft. long at the rate...