Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...museum was no place for the remains of a donor. Next, Billy's sisters, Fiftyish Polly Rose Gottlieb, and Sixtyish Miriam Stern, scouted Westchester Hills Cemetery in Ardsley, N.Y. After driving out with Executor Arthur Cantor, a Broad way pressagent and producer (The Tenth Man), the sisters chose the cemetery's biggest plot, which cost some $48,000 and lay opposite the grave cf Composer George Gershwin. They also planned a monument designed by Sculptor Isamu Noguchi...
...Sheridan, Wyoming. The Arapaho came, and the Shoshoni and the Cheyenne. And as they met, they pondered the weighty question: Who would be elected Miss Indian American of 1966? Last year it was a Kiowa squaw and before that an Arapaho. This year the judges faced south and chose a pretty Pueblo maiden. As beauty queens go, Wahleah Lujan, 18, might be a mite plump, but she had a face Pocahontas could envy and plenty of other assets: a sophomore at Colorado's Fort Lewis College, her primitive Indian abstractions are good enough to hang in both the Chicago...
...surprising 75% of the trials, judge and jury actually agreed on the verdict. In the other 25%, partly because defendants chose jury trials in hopes of better deals, the jury disagreed massively in the direction of leniency. Judges, in fact, mete out death sentences considerably more often than juries. To those who demand ever stiffer jail sentences, the authors point out that wherever the law permits harshness, juries are most reluctant to return guilty verdicts...
...ahead with SECAM and nine East European Communist nations promptly fell into line. At an Oslo meeting of the International Consultative Conference on Radio Communications last month, Greece and Monaco also opted for SECAM, giving it a 16-nation lineup. Twelve Western European countries, including the United Kingdom, chose PAL, while Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain remained undecided...
...board radar, inertial guidance and computer system. In some as yet unknown way, the system produced a figure nearly 7 ft. per sec. greater than the figure radioed up from ground control. When Collins' own slide-rule tabulation agreed with the spacecraft guidance system, Command Pilot Young chose to go with the double-checked on-board answer...