Word: 104th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dating the Moon. Walker's methods have already produced important discoveries. By analyzing fission tracks, Russian scientists recently identified the 104th chemical element, named Khurchatorium, arid U.S. research scientists spotted the phenomenon of triple fission-the splitting of a nucleus into three roughly equal parts. General Electric scientists have irradiated thin strips of plastic, etched the fission tracks with acid, and produced a material of great potential medical significance-a sensitive sieve that duplicates the filtering capacity of human membranes...
...something in the painting was the artist himself. Fumed Motherwell: "The painting is totally abstract. It is not a picture of Kennedy's death, but an elegy, which is an expression of grief for someone dead, like a requiem mass." Motherwell should know. It is the 104th elegy that he has painted in the past 18 years, and nobody has ever admitted seeing anything in one before...
...number of Guardsmen patrolling the area had swelled to 4,000 and 700 more were being flown in from Fresno. They set about "sweeping" three separate zones totaling 40 blocks; the largest was a section of Watts bounded by Century Boulevard, Central Avenue, Compton Avenue, and 103rd and 104th Streets. Forming a skirmish line that extended across a street from sidewalk to sidewalk, and carrying M-l and M-14 rifles with drawn bayonets, the Guardsmen stalked abreast down the street while police and deputy sheriffs followed them, arresting anyone on the street. Guardsmen killed a second Negro whom they...
...Billboard's chart of bestselling 45 r.p.m.s, a record called Married Man appeared a fortnight ago in 104th place, between Bewitched and Somewhere...
BAPTISTS: Twelve thousand "messengers" gathered in St. Louis' Kiel Auditorium to represent the 32,000 churches and 9,500.,00 members of the 104th Southern Baptist Convention and roundly denounced the very principles of unity. The proposals for church merger that are engaging the attention of many of the Southern Baptists' Protestant brethren, said the outgoing president, the Rev. Ramsey Pollard of Memphis, are "an indication of weakness rather than strength. Lack of conviction led to these denominations' decline, and the decline will continue because such mergers are based on expediency and convenience. Whenever you sacrifice conviction...