Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like huge Japanese lanterns, the harbors along Japan's jagged coast sparkled at night last week with the blue fire of acetylene welding rods and the white glare of arc lights. The lights burned overtime as Japan worked to meet the greatest shipbuilding boom in its history. All 54 ways at Japan's nine major shipyards are occupied; one ship is barely launched before a new keel is laid...
...directs all the breeding: "I enjoy making up my mind for the matings, and then seeing the babies." His most successful match produced Exbury, winner of all five races he was entered in this year, including the world's richest cup, the Prix de 1'Arc ($197,000). Figuring that Exbury could not top that record, Guy retired him, and the horse henceforth will earn $240,000 a year at stud-accommodating up to 40 mares a year at $6,000 per service...
...rush to memorialize Ken nedy, many worthy governments and citizens' groups seemed eager to wipe out one historical name with another. In Beirut, Lebanon, Georges Clemenceau Street became John F. Kennedy Street; in Montigny-les-Metz, 175 miles east of Paris, the Rue Jeanne d'Arc was rechristened Rue J. F. Kennedy. A New Hampshire state legislator proposed changing the name of 5,535-ft. Mount Clay (after Henry) to Mount Kennedy...
Tracing her death to philosophy, or sex, or confusion demands a clearer characterization than the movie offers. The philosophic explanation presents Nana as fantastically sensitive, young Nietzschean who gains fulfillment in a self-styled artistic ("Everything's beautiful") rebellion. Like the Joan of Arc she cries over in a movie, Nana dies a martyr's death...
...Abydos on the Nile was the first woman archaeologist to conduct her own "digs," went tenting with Bedouins at 70, finally "retired" to lecture on sorcery in England, where she held listeners spellbound as she expounded her thesis that the Inquisitors were absolutely right, Joan of Arc was indeed a witch; in Welwyn, Hertfordshire...