Word: calendars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saudi Arabia's Islamic calendar, this year is 1386, and visitors to the-desert kingdom often feel that is about where Saudi Arabia stands on the Western calendar. Justice still decrees an eye for an eye. Marriages are arranged sight unseen. A few weeks ago the deputy rector of the Islamic University at Medina even came out in support of a 14th-century theory that the world is flat and mountains are only ballast to keep it from tipping over. But for all this, Saudi Arabia's old ideas and old ways are giving way to the 20th...
...Heezen and his associates at Columbia's Lamont Geological Observatory carefully examined each one, slice by slice, for traces of residual magnetism and remnants of primitive life. Because sediment has settled continuously on the ocean bottom for millions of years, each core represented both a magnetic and evolutionary calendar; each slice was a thin but significant record of a brief period in the earth's history...
...wondering which is the more unpalatable-the steel-wool structure or the pink soapy filling. Sample Farrell: "Time moved slowly backwards through more than one thousand nine hundred and twenty years of A.D., and five thousand years of B.C., through all of the years and years of the Jewish calendar . . . before Hector was a pup, through the Neolithic and Paleolithic ages, back through and before the Darwin man, the Dover man, Pithecanthropus Erectus, and all of the fathers of the fathers...
According to baseball's version of the Chinese calendar, 1962 was the Year of the Stealer, 1963 was the Year of the Pitcher, 1964 was the Year the Phillies Folded, and 1965 was the Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant. So far, 1966 is clearly the Year of the Tape Measure...
Next year Alfred takes a sabbatical from Harvard and already his calendar is filled with teaching stints the country and with less academic projects such as openings in Dublin and London for Hogan...