Word: tracings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allied patrols scoured the scorched and battered moonscape around the liberated Marine garrison of Khe Sanh last week, they found North Vietnamese trenches and bunkers, tons of supplies and ammunition, some 1,300 bodies-and hardly a trace of opposition. Whether fled or dead, the formidable force of 20,000 North Vietnamese assault troops that had ringed 6,000 U.S. Marines and ARVN troops was gone. What once loomed as the largest, most decisive and most controversial battle of the Viet Nam war would now never be joined, and the forebodings of the armchair generals* who questioned the decision...
...Globe'schange has not, of course, occurred spontaneously. The principal engineer has been editor Tom Winship. Whipple, without a trace of simulated loyalty, calls him "the spark--the dynamo--that has really accomplished the change...
...harmful. As often as not, these harmful effects are experienced by persons who did not necessarily share in the original benefits, and only rarely are those who introduce the new technology automatically held accountable for the less desirable side effects. It thus becomes increasingly the task of government to trace out the interconnection between the beneficial and the harmful effects of technology, and to seek to offset the latter...
...Virginia's rapid urbanization show that he is quite different from the rural bosses who built their power in the South on segregation, economic stagnation, and a restricted electorate. The freshman Senator likes to emphasize his break with traditional Southern politics by exclaiming, with feigned astonishment and a trace of pride, "Why, did you know that I'm the first Virginia Senator ever elected from a city...
...they pass through the ocean depths, submarines invariably give off "scars"?traces of heat and turbulence caused by the ship's passage through the waters. The U.S. employs ultrasensitive infra-red devices in satellites and planes to look down into the oceans and detect the scars. Submarines also give off what Navymen call "an electronic signature" that, like a human fingerprint, is unique. The signature is the sum total of the sub's sounds?the beat of its screw, thump of its pumps, rustle of its wake. To detect those signatures, the U.S. uses a variety of acute listening...