Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your May 26 account of a young and inexperienced pastor getting his vestments singed is revealing. Sex is what you make it. For his students' parents, sex apparently is still a bestial pleasure, more lucid in the dark than in the vernacular...
...shaky (off from 493 to the dollar to 780 at the free-trade rate since April, 1956) that Chileans were forced to stop all imports from the U.S. by ordering importers, before taking delivery, to deposit 10,000% of the import item's value in an escrow account for 90 days...
...unearthly state can be created only for a fraction of a minute at a time. To learn at firsthand how it is done and what it feels like, TIME's Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant went weightless in one of the Air Force's fast jet fighters. His account...
Sputnik III, said Fedorov, is an automatic spaceborne laboratory capable of making observations of many kinds. Its instruments, which account for 2,129 Ibs. of its weight, are "considerably improved" over those of the earlier Sputniks. They are mainly in three groups. One group observes conditions in the earth's atmosphere, including composition, pressure, ionization, electrical phenomena and the earth's magnetic field. Another observes nonearthly phenomena, such as cosmic rays, meteorites and solar radiation...
...Mandarins (TIME, May 28, 1956), was not alone: "There were some fifteen hundred of us [foreign] delegates roaming the length and breadth of China." But Author de Beauvoir seems to have got around on her own a good deal and to have seen a nation that, if her account could be credited, would seem to be by far the happiest and justest known to man since Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union. Items...