Word: 000th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bitter History. Near the end of the Ecumenical Council in Rome, Poland's delegation, headed by Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, decided to ask East-and West-Germany's 54 bishops, archbishops and cardinals to attend the 1,000th anniversary of the conversion of Poland's King Mieczyslaw I, to be celebrated in Czestochowa next May 3. In a remarkable 17-page invitation, the Polish primates reviewed the bitter record of Polish-German relations, concluded it had been an accident of history. "We grant forgiveness and we ask forgiveness," they said. "Let us seek to forget. No polemics...
Wally Schirra, to be sure, had never succumbed to the growing pessimism. "If we had 999 chances out of 1,000 of having a successful flight," he explained, in a preflight interview for the National Broadcasting Company, "no one would want the 1,000th flight. But you don't add up a whole bunch of flights and say we're due for a failure. It's 999 out of 1,000 on each flight...
...Government apparently believes that Leif Ericsson was a son of Iceland and a discoverer of America. The U.S. engraved a statement to this effect on a statue of Leif and gave the statue to the Icelandic nation on its 1,000th anniversary in 1930. I am sorry if my fellow countryman has turned Norwegian...
Detroit's biggest outdoor signboard is devoted, fittingly, to keeping a minute-by-minute tally of the year's auto production. Sometime this week, the sign's revolving numerals will register their 2,290,000th car in 1965, thus breaking an alltime quarterly record for the auto industry; before the month is out, that figure will rise to some 2,500,000 for 1965's first three months. As the industry drives confidently toward what it believes will be its first 9,000,000-car year,* one company is gaining faster than all the others. Though...
...Endure Not to Know." If LSD is taken on three successive days, the subject builds up a tolerance for it and gets no effect from the normal safe dose, which is only 100 micrograms (1/300,000th of an ounce). After a few days, this wears off, and the same person can take LSD again. The drug is not addicting, though it may be habituating. A second experience is not likely to be a repeat of the first. A woman who had been preoccupied with external matters on her first dose decided, on the second, to look into her own soul...