Word: ac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...women are, as far as man knows, in the company of God in heaven. Only one is an American, Mother Frances Cabrini (1850-1917). A great many more souls are waiting for similar approval.* Last week the Vatican's Polyglot Press released the latest edition of Index ac Status Causarum Beatificationis Servorum Dei et Canonizationis Beatorum, a 391-page Who's Who of potential saints that lists the names of 1,132 dead Catholics who are candidates for the congregation's study...
...final abolition of all remaining duties and quotas between the member states. Impressed by the agreement, Britain last week pressed with new confidence for Common Market membership, and the U.S. took a big step toward expanded trade with it (see THE NATION ). Said Konrad Adenauer of the Brussels ac cord: "This is one of the most important events of European history in centuries...
...organist laid ten fingers down on a blasting Bachian chord-and lost it. At Vic Tanny's, dozens of reducers stared in blubbery relief as the complicated electrical contraptions halted their pummeling. At the Paramount Theater, where the projectors run on DC current but the sound on AC, Elvis Presley was silenced at last...
...puffing down the aisle to their seats. And, as if no indignity is too much for the burdened Spaniard to bear, the government has ordered restaurants and cafes to pull down their iron shutters at the afternoonish hour of midnight. Wondered an incredulous professor as he sipped coñac at Madrid's longhaired Cafe Gijón (which normally closes at 3:30 a.m.): "If they close the cafes, where are we going to go? It's too hot in the summer to go to sleep so early...
...week's end, even more abruptly than it began, the Kennedy criticism was drowned in the thunder of cheers that ac companied Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. on the U.S.'s first successful manned flight into space (see SCIENCE). In the reflected glory of this accomplishment, the beleaguered President could hope to regain some of his lost prestige...