Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most fascinating chapters of ancient history tells about the fabled island of Crete, whose rulers were thalassocrats (lords of the sea) and whose beautiful, bare-breasted priestesses romped in arenas with sacred bulls. Most history books state that the Cretan sea-kingdom, whose capital was Knossos, brought Egyptian and Asian civilization to the then-savage shores of Greece. This theory was largely the work of Oxford Professor Sir Arthur Evans, who excavated Knossos in 1900-05. Sir Arthur died in 1941 at the age of 90, a revered figure in archaeology, but last week he was the center...
...practicing Catholics. From all over the world the congress drew 13,000 delegates (previous record abroad: London's 8,000 in 1955) ; the delegations ranged in size from one person (Israel, Jordan and Hungary) to 2,836 from the U.S. Rio had never seen such a cosmopolitan crowd; bare-shouldered Ghanaians and batik-clad Indonesians drew stares, while the eight delegates from the Soviet Union drew something more-a predictable blast from the Rev. Carl Mclntire. head of the Fundamentalist American Council of Christian Churches, who accused the Baptists of providing a platform for Communist propaganda. Retorted Richmond...
...next six months, optimists outnumber the pessimists. Inland Steel Chairman Joseph Block expects steel production to pick up by late summer, average out to more than 70% of capacity for the year. Says he: "1960 will be one of the industry's best production years, with a bare possibility of topping the 1955 record ingot output of 117 million tons." Retail sales are still above last year (see chart), and Sears Roebuck Chairman Charles Kellstadt expects his company's 1960 sales to increase 5% over 1959 sales of about $4 billion. The auto industry has a million...
...French Minister of Culture André Malraux, as well as adviser on Malraux's art books, Fautrier overcame his representational tendencies 30 years ago, is "freed from the limits of design" when he paints. Virtually indistinguishable from one another, Fautrier's paintings bear such titles as Bare Breasts, Landscape...
...trees lose their flowers. Their leaves fall. Their bare branches stretch up to the sky begging for water . . . The sun goes on, day after day, from east to west, scorching relentlessly. The earth cracks up and deep fissures open their gaping mouths; but there is no water-only the shimmering haze at noon making mirage lakes of quicksilver . . . The sun makes an ally of the breeze. It heats the air till it becomes the loo and then sends it on its errand. Even in the intense heat, the loo's warm caresses are sensuous and pleasant. It brings...