Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scientists and engineers who make up the committee are appointed for six years so that they will be above partisan influences. Most of the present committee members, he added, were appointed under the Eisenhower administration. Except for a few people, Ramsey said the committee was the same group which chose to present last year's prize to Edward Teller, one of the principal hostile witnesses in Oppenheimer's 1954 security review...
King Hassan chose the U.S. for his first state visit outside Africa to demonstrate that Morocco, though officially unaligned, knows that its real interest lies with the West. Indeed, in the two years since his father died, Hassan has proved to be a sensible leader of Morocco's 11.6 million people, and Hassan was eager to talk about his achievements...
...world was ripe for change. In 1911, the dissident artists formed the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, which, they hoped, would put on an exhibition that would have the same notoriety and success as Paris' Salon des Refusées. As president, they chose Painter Arthur B. Davies. not so much because he had exhibited with the Ashcan School, but because he knew people of wealth and position. The choice had repercussions no one foresaw: while the Henri group wanted to put on a huge exhibition to call attention to "progressive" American art, Davies happened to have...
When Java was lost to the Mohammedans 485 years ago, so the legend goes, the disgusted Hindu gods hunted around for a new home. They chose the island of Bali, and since their exalted rank demanded a high dwelling place, they created a chain of mountains. On the most sacred eastern end of the island, the gods erected the highest of Bali's mountains, the 10,308-foot volcano of Gunung Agung, regarded by the Balinese as "The Navel of the World." Halfway up the slope of Agung, the pious Balinese built the huge mother temple of Besakih...
Sparks used a rigid, take-a-boy-like-me standard to pick his singers. "You get so many nuts in folk music," he says, "that when I chose our people, I made it a point to shy away from questionable people. I looked for the all-American boy or girl who had no political complaints and no sexual problems anybody would be interested in." To assemble his troupe he ran through 29 singers, including a few who resigned for technical reasons-such as the inability to read music...