Word: cards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deep Freeze. The Chinese now insist that even India's consul in Lhasa carry an identity card. And India's once well-treated ambassador to Peking is now getting the deep-freeze treatment previously reserved for the out-of-favor Yugoslav ambassador...
...CREDIT CARD battle is expected to follow Western Airlines' application for CAB permission to honor credit cards other than airlines' own Universal Air Travel card. Other airlines, with 900,000 Universal members, do not want to accept outside credit cards, which would cut into their profits...
...another fortune, based this time on his nose for natural gas. His Associated Oil & Gas Co. announced that it has proved up perhaps the largest untapped gas field in gas-rich South Texas. Estimated reserves: a trillion cubic feet. But that was only Harry Mosser's opening card; he also announced a contract to sell 800 billion cu. ft. of gas to Coastal States Gas Producing Co. at 16? per thousand cu. ft. (with escalator clause), biggest such deal in years. Coastal will build a ten-inch pipeline from the field in Duval and Jim Wells counties to Associated...
...pilgrims arrive by special train or bus (twelve to 19 trains, 2,000 buses daily), stay usually only a day, are moved through the cathedral with military precision. For the Deutsche mark (24?) entrance fee, each visitor gets a devotional book, a metal lapel badge, and a tiny card that has been touched to the tunic (the garment itself is kept under glass, and most pilgrims get no closer to it than about ten feet). Priests acting as guides keep lines moving by walkie-talkies. Whatever the tunic's real origin, says Trier's Bishop Matthias Wehr...
Averaging about the size of a card table, they were in high, far, pleasant places on the undersides of overhanging rocks. They resemble Stone Age art found in eastern Spain, the Tassili mountains of North Africa, in India and Indonesia. They depict tall, slender, square-shouldered people quite unlike the present-day aborigines. Sharply designed and hauntingly evocative, they suggest a lost civilization with its own unnamed gods and elaborate ritual. Some paintings show boomerangs, the aborigine's weapon, but boomerangs were used in several parts of the prehistoric world. Lommel has not the slightest notion what the pictures...