Word: vastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Specific problems of commercial SSTs--including fire danger from the vast fuel load, vulnerability to poor weather conditions, and the limited number of emergency airports that could handle the big SSTs...
Barrientos, scarcely beginning to grey at 49, did it with a will and a way that conquered Bolivia's vast complexity of mountain and jungle and reached the isolated campesino, the peasant, who accounts for 72% of the nation's population of 3,800,000. Barrientos sleeps only four hours a night, starts work at 7 a.m. and is incapable of being chairborne for very long. The way to go any place, as far as the President is concerned, is by air; he was trained to fly by the U.S. Air Force, and he reaches for the controls...
Second Marriages. Although vast sums are spent by the Government on education, the report says, relatively little is known about whether the money is really contributing to better learning. And for all the talk of rising crime rates, there may have been an actual decrease in the harm that crimes do to people. Religious leaders worry about the rising divorce rate. Still, notes the report, the percentage of the population that is married has risen 7.5% since 1940, largely because of the increase in second marriages...
...Harvard professor of Latin American history, Womack, 31, clearly shows that Zapata's fidelity and incorruptibility were deeply rooted in the bitter struggle of Morelos farmers to guard their land titles and water rights. Their enemies were the rich landowners constantly seeking to add acreage to their already vast haciendas...
...York Times indicates, ROTC graduates now comprise 50% of Army officers, 35% of the Navy's, and 30% of the Air Force officers. (N.Y. Times, 5 Jan., 1969, p. 64). So ROTC not only supplies the vast majority of junior officers for strength in the long run (by supplying career officers...