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...Jermaine 16, Marlon 14. They sing some, and play guitar. Michael, the lead singer, is twelve. They are brothers, and taken together they add up to the Jackson Five, a group that in hardly more than a year-has become the biggest thing to hit Pop Capitalism since the advent of the Beatles. They had four hit singles in 1970, two more already this year, four albums, with all ten releases selling in the millions, and one (I'll Be There) already well over 4,000,000. Teen-age girls besiege their home for autographs and sometimes faint when...
...Dictator Gerardo Machado (1925-33) snuffed out constitutional democracy, he had student and labor leaders thrown to the sharks off Morro Castle. After ex-Army Sergeant Fulgencio Batista took over in 1934, he remained, both in and out of office, the dominant figure in Cuban political life until the advent of Fidel Castro...
Despite the advent of supertankers, nearly 90% of the world's ships could use the canal if it were to reopen. Even at the prewar depth of 38 ft., vessels of up to 125,000 tons can traverse the waterway in ballast, cutting off twelve days on the round trip between Europe and the Persian Gulf...
Changing Situation. As nearly 80% of the country's 15.5 million eligible voters went to the polls, South Korea's fear of the North probably proved the decisive factor. That fear has grown since the advent of the Nixon Doctrine, under which the U.S. has already withdrawn 20,000 of its 64,000 troops; South Korean soldiers now stand guard along the entire 155-mile Demilitarized Zone. To soften the impact of the U.S. withdrawals, Washington has promised the South Koreans $315 million annually over the next five years in aid and equipment to modernize the obsolete weaponry...
...little chance to grow rapidly. The cancellation of the SST, which company designers labored on for more than a decade, casts a new pall over its future. The loss of the SST was a painful psychological blow as well as an economic setback. For the first time since the advent of jet travel, Boeing was deprived of work on "the big new plane" that the rest of the world would soon be discussing. The cancellation also meant the partial breakup of the company's supersonic engineering and design teams, not to mention its hopes for hundreds of millions in profits...