Word: 1960s
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...soldiers with cries of welcome after weeks of siege and shelling. The conflict between tribal-based North Yemen and communist South Yemen was the first since the two states merged four years ago, and had quashed popular hopes that a series of wars and skirmishes since the 1960s would ever cease. Even now, the separatist leader, Ali Salem al-Beidh, and five of his aides haven't admitted defeat, despite reports that they fled by boat last night to neighboring Oman.parpar
That release comes in the wake of a May report by the Fernald state School which said that Harvard and MIT researchers conducted such experiments on dozens of retarded students from the 1940s to the 1960s...
Matthews displayed a new staircase uncovered from a dry wall staircase installed in the 1960s. Matthews, Greenough and Weld now boasted elevators and new ramps to help bring Harvard into compliance with state and federal disabilities access standards...
...parts of ceremonial altars, unaware that these trophies represented species new to science. Indeed, MacKinnon found among the unsorted bones in the collection of Hanoi's Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources some skulls of the slow-running deer that had been gathering dust since the late 1960s, when they were picked up during a Vietnamese collecting expedition. During a recent trip to the institute, MacKinnon spotted yet another strange pair of antlers in the same box of bones. A fourth species? It defies probability, but he set the antlers aside for further investigation...
...advance or government largesse give them the idea that the old limits no longer apply. So argues Vanderbilt University anthropologist Virginia Abernethy and a growing cohort of critics. In Kenya, for instance, total fertility rose from 7.5 live births per woman in the mid-1950s to 8.12 in the 1960s and '70s even as infant mortality declined and incomes rose...