Word: zone
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...second period the Harvard often seemed to forget that the object of the game is to score. The Crimson attackmen passed brilliantly in the offensive zone but didn't bother taking any shots at the goal...
...proposal to increase hemispheric understanding by lofting into space a new satellite that would transmit television programs between north and south. Older was his plea for a barriers-down trading area in Latin America modeled on the Eu ropean Common Market. Javits envisaged a tariff-free trading zone stretching from Tierra del Fuego to the Rio Grande and embracing a population of 220 million with an annual gross national product of $78 billion. He hoped that the U.S. and Canada would ultimately join, forming a market that would dwarf the European Economic Community...
Making It Right. Last week's military actions in South Viet Nam more than justified that view. In eight separate operations ranging from the northern uplands to jungled War Zone "D" near Saigon, U.S. troops and their allies killed more than 1,900 of the enemy. At week's end a battalion of U.S. Marines splashed ashore near the mouth of the Long Tao River, the main shipping channel to Saigon, to yet another foray, this one dubbed "Jack Stay...
...Gemini been within range of a tracking station when trouble began, ground controllers could have immediately diagnosed the problem and told Armstrong how to solve it. But the spaceship was in a dead zone between stations, and in all its maze of instruments, none was designed to report when thrusters were firing. Though the short circuit might have required early termination of the mission anyway, such on-board instrumentation would have enabled Armstrong to bring Gemini under control much more quickly...
Britain's Plan. Ryan also draws on long-forgotten documents to demolish the notion that Franklin Roosevelt drew up the zones of occupation for Germany. Actually, the plan was Britain's. F.D.R. was first shown the occupation plans in 1943, when he was aboard the U.S.S. Iowa on his way to the Cairo and Teheran conferences. He was both ir ritated and troubled, says Ryan, because the British plan, called Operation Rankin, placed the U.S. zone in the southern German provinces. "We should go as far as Berlin," Roosevelt said. "The U.S. should have Berlin. The Soviets...