Word: zeroes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alive. Two Marine platoons that followed were stopped at the base of the hill by heavy fire. With that, Marine Commander Lieut. General Lewis Walt pulled out all the stops, ordered two battalions into action. The Army's big 105-mm. and 155-mm. guns swung round to zero in on the enemy hilltops. Marine jets began flying sortie after sortie with 1,000-lb. and 2,000-lb. bombs and napalm, eventually dropped more than 1,000 tons on the North Vietnamese. From the outset the Marine strategy was to take the hills at any cost, denying...
...California Writer Harry Squires wrote to possible presidential candidates asking what they thought of the curious fact that from 1840 onward, no U.S. President elected in a year ending in zero had lived out his time in the White House. "Dear Mr. Squires," came one reply. "I feel that the future will have to answer this for itself-both as to my aspirations and my fate should I have the privilege of occupying the White House. I daresay, should anyone take this phenomenon to heart, anyone, that is, who aspires to change his address to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, that most...
When Wilt Chamberlain was with the San Francisco Warriors, local sportswriters tended to regard him as an oversized goon who could dunk the ball but rated zero on team play. WILT SCORES 50, WARRIORS LOSE, the headlines often read. The crowds were down on him, too. "I can't love a 7-ft. 1-in. loser," said a fan at the time. So two years ago, San Francisco gladly traded Wilt to the Philadelphia 76ers. Last year the Warriors fired Wilt's coach, Alex Hannum, after a front-office squabble, and he also wound up in Philadelphia. Good...
...West Germany's Heinz Mack, 36, one of the Group Zero, abandoned painted abstractions in 1953 to study philosophy and logic for three years at the University of Cologne. Artistic illumination came to him in 1959, when accidentally, he stepped on a piece of aluminum foil on a sisal rug, was delighted with the light reflections on its newly embossed surface. Today he uses plastics, spotlights, rotors, polished aluminum foil and nubbled glass to recapture this "amazing, profoundly changing" phenomenon, says that "to me, light plays the same part that color used to play for painters...
...savings and is spending again. Unemployment, in spite of a dip in the factory work week, has failed to increase, and, in the most reassuring indication of all, Ackley pointed out that "we have been encouraged by the apparent speed of the inventory adjustment, with accumulation actually falling to zero in February." The latest of the leading indicators for March verified the trend: personal income rose $3.4 billion to a record level of $613.1 billion at a seasonally adjusted rate...