Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Them Out." When the cabin wall ruptured, escaping pressure sucked the flames across the astronauts-first Grissom, then White, finally Chaffee. Dense smoke and carbon monoxide rapidly filled the cabin. Though the astronauts suffered burns, it was asphyxiation that killed them. So intense were the heat and smoke billowing from the cabin into the "white room" near the craft that rescuers were repeatedly driven back and their gas masks, designed to protect against toxic fumes rather than smoke, were quickly exhausted...
...Juan Ongania twelve men. Johnson, of course, outdid them all. Scores of Secret Service men moved through the grounds around Beaulieu, the Johnson residence, chattering into walkie-talkies about the whereabouts of "Volunteer," the code name for Johnson. Whenever he moved, they literally shielded him with a wall of bodies; they even decided to remove the 1,430-lb. chandelier that hung over the conference table around which Johnson and the other Presidents would sit. Offshore was anchored the helicopter carrier U.S.S. Wright, whose communications room contained the hot line to the Kremlin just in case some international crisis arose...
...contrast to Rio, Sāo Paulo is all business. Brazil's biggest and fastest growing city (pop. 6,000,000), it has 25,000 industrial enterprises that account for 30% of Brazil's total production. Sao Paulo considers itself the Brazilian Wall Street, and Paulistas act and dress accordingly, favoring dark suits and somber miens for all occasions. When he is not at one of the city's 500 sports clubs, Sao Paulo's favorite recreation, the Paulista will usually be in his car fighting Latin America's worst traffic jam (416,000 vehicles...
...Viet Nam Wall. In Quang Tri city at week's end, the Marines and the Vietnamese were digging in as for a siege, piling sandbags higher, gouging out foxholes, setting up mines and barbed wire-all on the prudent assumption that the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese would soon assault the city again. Similar unease prevailed in Hue, where the Viet Cong radio promised an attack soon. Premier Ky, who flew to Quang Tri to inspect the damage of the first raid, came up with his own solution to the province's troubles. It included the possible evacuation...
...Whether or not the Soviet Union likes it, he said, Austria will move to join the Common Market as an associate member. Like many other small nations that trade with Western Europe, it does not want to be left out in the economic cold beyond the wall of common tariffs that is rising around the Market...