Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Student Mobilization Committee is organizing a demonstration at the Mass. Statehouse in Boston Tuesday to protest the U. S. invasion of Cambodia as well as to support the bill that would require a referendum on the war on the November ballot. An array of anti-war organizations have begun planning a massive march on Washington for this Saturday...
...partly because of the China border dispute. Khrushchev's successors, who reversed his one-sided reliance ori rocketry, have placed great emphasis on the modernization of the army. Now a mobile, fast-striking force, the army is fully motorized and possesses the world's largest array of tanks-about 40,000. Geared to fighting over vast continental masses laced by countless rivers, the Russians have far better mobile bridge-building equipment than the U.S., and many of the tanks are equipped with six-foot snorkels for fording rivers...
Fascination with the subject often shadowed other elements in the painting. Samuel Morse, famous for his telegraph code, painted a seene of a room at the Louvre with an array of well dressed young artists beside their casels in front of a wall striped with the old masters. The painting offered instruction to the American public about art treasure on the other side of the Atlantic. Today the minute imitation of more than thirty paintings crowded on the museum wall make a pattern of curiosities for the eve to probe. Morse used mellow tones in his graceful storv of European...
...spending a little time at the White House. Now that he can call the place his own, he has decided to share it; his welcome-mat policy has resulted in a record first-year total of 50,000 invited guests. They have been treated to an imaginative and varied array of entertainment. While the Nixon White House probably will never exchange its basic gray for psychedelic Technicolor, it has already shown itself to be the perfect background for colorful splashes of wit and talent...
With a relatively small skilled work force and nationwide mobilization, South Viet Nam produces almost nothing to trade for the vast array of imports that choke its harbors and shine alluringly on store shelves. Exports total barely $15 million, while imports exceed $850 million. The only thing that closes this incredible trade gap is the massive infusion of U.S. dollars. This year the South Vietnamese economy will absorb some $400 million in direct foreign aid from the U.S., another $400 million in Defense Department spending for local goods and services, and about $80 million in private spending by U.S. personnel...