Word: wipes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Despite the advantages they enjoy over Dienbienphu's doomed defenders, the Marines involved in the Con Thien Sitzkrieg are in something less than an enviable position. The 100 or so Communist guns that are trained on them with lethal accuracy are difficult to spot and almost impossible to wipe out except by direct hits. With ranges of up to 18 miles and guns as big as 152-mm. "bunker crackers," enemy ordnance plasters the Marine outposts almost at will. By firing only a few rounds and then quickly moving their artillery pieces or hiding them-in bunkers scooped...
...here for the first ten years, but after that you have a nice car and a nice home and can educate your children, so you don't care." Claiming that higher union wages are not practical in so cutthroat an economic situation, a sweatshop spokesman warned: "You may wipe out an industry with a $6,000,000 or $7,000,000 yearly payroll." Nevertheless, Chinatown residents feel increasingly that the long and patient wait for affluence may be in keeping with Mao-think, but not with life...
...Classrooms. Launched in 1944 under President Manuel Avila Camacho, sharply stepped .up in 1959 by President Adolfo Lopez Mateos, and energetically continued by President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz for the past three years, Mexico's campaign to wipe out illiteracy is gaining new momentum. Under Diaz Ordaz, Mexico has spent four times as much on education as it has on national defense; up to 10,000 classrooms have been built each year during his administration, and 5,000 more are currently under construction...
...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A tarnished film queen, Shelley Winters, flips over a couple of surfers who plan to hang ten over her $3,000,000 jewel collection in "Wipe-out." Repeat...
...Poisons. For all their misdeeds, rats are not really to blame. It is man who is at fault. "If we could only get people to keep the lids tight on metal garbage containers," says Clarence W. Travis of the District of Colum bia's Health Department, "we could wipe out the rats in six months. We put poison down in the alleys and distribute free poison to people in blighted areas, but they leave so much juicy, greasy garbage around that the rats pay no attention to the poison...