Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Weidner, 40, was a cripple on crutches who lived in the village of Neugersdorf, 115 miles southeast of the frontier of freedom. But Hans Weidner did have one major asset, the 30-passenger bus that he operated for the local Communist regime. It was an ugly thing, and ancient. Its chassis creaked, and the engine coughed; a cream-colored coat of paint could not disguise the welts and bruises of two decades of chugging service. In fact, the bus was ready for the junk pile when Weidner decided to press it into service for one last...
...with Italy? As a result, Macmillan has deepened France's ancient mistrust of perfidious Albion, while the Kennedy Administration's consultations with Whitehall have become ever more perfunctory on such life-or-death issues as Berlin and Cuba. The Administration's abrupt announcement that it planned to scuttle Skybolt left Britons shocked and disillusioned by what seemed to be a brutal rejection of their nation's claim to equal partnership with the U.S. The U.S., rued the Tory Spectator, kicked Britain "down the nuclear league to end up tying with, perhaps, Italy...
...problem is old and tantalizingly difficult; it has baffled man's best technology. But a solution would be as valuable as the elusive gold that beckoned to ancient alchemists. So scientists go right on searching for a practical system for converting sea water to fresh water. For all their efforts, though, water from conventional distillation plants is still too expensive to be used anywhere except at isolated military posts or desert oil centers. The freeze-separation process, which removes fresh water as ice crystals, may some day prove more economical, but the cheapest water that it promises will cost...
Heed Advice. Worldly observers are at a loss to explain the popularity of these Johnny-come-lately journalists. Astrology itself still rests firmly on the reassuring premise that the earth is the center of the universe, and contemporary astrologers, like their ancient predecessors, take refuge in generalities so broad as to be totally unedifying. "Good lunar aspect today encourages romance, change, travel, salesmanship on highest level," read a recent and all encompassing bulletin from Sidney Omarr who does not apologize for such ambiguities. Says he: "Astrology deals not with facts, but with profundities...
Died. Carl Diem. 80, scholarly German sportsman whose love of the classics led him to revive the ancient Greek tradition of relaying a torch from Mount Olympus to the far-flung sites of the Olympic games, beginning with 1936's XI Olympiad in Berlin, where he also successfully resisted Nazi efforts to bar Jewish athletes; of a stroke; in Cologne...