Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...separation of life from work sends millions out to parasite communities around the smoking city. The rest have to work in boxes, travel underground in boxes, and live in boxes. The horror of the City pushes people even farther into themselves as they walk down the street. All of the buildings weigh on your shoulders as you touch the sidewalk...
...manage its own economy, when the nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of law is plagued with unprecedented lawlessness, when a nation that has been known for a century of equality of opportunity is torn by unprecedented racial violence, and when the President of the U.S. cannot travel abroad or to any major city at home without fear of a hostile demonstration, then it's time for new leadership in America...
...shirt, it would be a somewhat arid fellow code-named "R." Pham Hung, as he is otherwise known, is a Ho Chi Minh protégé who has been headman at COSVN since 1967. It is no surprise that "R" is hard to find; he is said to travel constantly between COSVN's different units by motor bike. Two weeks ago, U.S. troops came close to capturing an important element of the headquarters. Acting on a tip, two infantry battalions raced to a bunker complex near Mimot, only to find the place all but deserted. One wounded Communist...
...perils of space travel and walking on the moon are one thing, but federal bureaucracy is something else. Astronaut Neil Armstrong, who will take over a NASA desk in Washington as a coordinator of aeronautical research between Uncle Sam and industry, was asked whether he had sold his house in Houston. "Maybe I'd just better keep it," he grinned, "in case I need a hiding place from the Washington people...
...Pipeline. Sterilization operations for men and women are based on the same strategy: cutting the tubes that carry the sex cells on their paths toward junction and conception. In the woman, the Fallopian tubes−through which the egg cells travel from the ovaries toward the uterus−are hidden in the pelvic cavity of the lower abdomen. Before recent technical advances they were relatively difficult for the surgeon to reach. In the man, a tube called the vas deferens (literally, the "carrying-away vessel") arises from each testicle to carry the spermatozoa to the prostate gland where the seminal...