Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possible now to disprove the grand speculation that these antiworlds could be populated by thinking creatures." See SCIENCE, Anti-Mirror on the Anti-Wall...
...defenders fell back on a wall and wire-bound compound as the Viet Cong slaughtered women and children hiding in nearby dugouts. Though U.S. and North Vietnamese planes arrived with the dawn, rolling great red gouts of napalm through the Communist positions and lacing the underbrush with white phosphorus and cannon fire, the Viet Cong hung on. A relief force fluttered in by helicopter, but was quickly pinned down and wiped out by the attackers. Other chopper-borne rescuers were driven off by ground fire. Dongxoai seemed ready to fall...
...Martin Market." Wall Street has been nervous ever since the Dow-Jones industrial average reached an alltime high of 939.62 a month ago. Many professionals fretted that the market had climbed too high too fast (it jumped more than 400 points in less than three years), and were concerned about the possibility that the U.S. economy was heading for a slowdown in the months ahead. Some experts began to look far afield for excuses for a fall they felt was coming. They were bothered about prospects of a hotter war in Viet Nam, about possible currency devaluation in Britain, about...
Rarely have the experts been so wrong. The only thing that remotely resembled a crash was a brief encounter between Bud Tingelstad's Lola-Ford and the wall on No. 3 turn. The yellow caution light shone for only 13 min. during the 31-hr. race- and 2 min. of that was the fault of a careless official who pulled the switch by mistake. Rookies finished third, fifth, sixth, eighth and ninth. Seven top cars used Firestone tires, and the first four were powered by rear-mounted Ford engines. Offy Boss Louis Meyer then announced that his firm...
...economic policymakers waved the red flag - and thereby showed how both ered and uncertain even the healthiest of bulls can become. With some well-timed but somewhat ill-chosen words, William McChesney Martin Jr., pres tigious chairman of the Federal Reserve System, brought out the mercurial char acter of Wall Street psychology, which finds it hard to accept the idea of indefi nitely continuing good times, even when business is most loudly proclaiming its confidence...