Word: vastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...president of the National Automobile Dealers Association, I am compelled to protest the article entitled "Autos -Bargain Season" [Aug. 22]. Your reporter has indicted an industry vital to the economic well-being of this country with false and misleading statements that have discredited the vast majority of dealers who are quality merchants and community-minded citizens...
...restored a sense of nationhood to Viet Nam. He had come to represent a form of "national Communism" that left him out of both the Chinese and the Soviet orbits, but prompted both powers to court him. With the limited resources of a tiny impoverished Asian nation?and with vast help from Peking and Moscow?he had withstood the enormous firepower of the mightiest industrial nation on earth. In so doing, he had forced one U.S. President out of office and tarnished the bright memory of another. He had reached deep into American society through a war that affects...
...Turks ruled Libya from the mid-16th century until 1912, when Italy gained the upper hand. The British administered the country from the end of World War II until independence in 1951. Once one of the poorest of Arab lands, Libya has become one of the wealthiest since vast reserves of oil were discovered a decade ago. In 1960, Libya's exports consisted of such commodities as esparto grass, olive oil, sponges and camels, and amounted to a paltry $8,500,000. Last year the figure rose to more than $1 billion, 99% of it from oil. Libya...
...country's sudden wealth has disrupted social patterns, and relatively little has trickled down to its 1,800,000 people. The vast oil industry employs only 8,000 workers and technicians, many of them foreigners. Only 2% of the land is under cultivation, and even workable farm land has been ignored as inflation, and the illusory promise of jobs spurred an exodus from the countryside. Even the nomad Bedouins have left the desert to live in the filth-ridden shantytowns that now encircle Tripoli and Benghazi. What little industry or trade exists, besides the oil business, is mainly controlled...
...railroad station, more magnificent than Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal. There would be the Führer Palace, with a reception hall 500 yards long, and a triumphal arch twice as wide as Napoleon's. Over everything would loom the Kuppelhalle, a domed meeting hall vast enough to enclose St. Peter's Cathedral. "I would never have entered politics," the Führer would sigh, "if I could have been an architect or a master builder...