Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Angry reaction quickly spread to Cairo and Alexandria, forcing authorities to close down Egypt's six universities and 14 other schools of higher education. In the capital, 1,000 Cairo University students were driven back when they armed themselves with bricks and palm branches and charged police barricades blocking their school. When 50 took refuge in the Mosque of Manial, horrified worshipers gasped as the cops raced inside without taking off their boots and frog-marched captives off to jail...
...meals ($25 and up) and socking away wine at $15 a bottle. Clad in soiled shorts and sweat-stained shirts, their bare feet stuck into rubber Japanese zori, they look to be a much scruffier lot than the colonial swells at the Rèsidence. They are much more close-mouthed as well. All attempts to start conversations fail; their thin, long-nosed Gallic faces remain blank...
...sheer drama of man's first flight to the moon-the spectacle, the perils and the uncertainty-has been heightened by the prospects of a close race between the U.S. and Russia. The U.S. has announced that on Dec. 21 it hopes to launch three astronauts aboard Apollo 8. According to the projected schedule, they will circle the moon ten times, starting on Christmas Eve, then return to the earth, where they will land 21 days later. Russian plans, as usual, are cloaked in secrecy. But many Western experts who have pieced together clues from Moscow rumors, recent Soviet...
...until close to the turn of the century was man ready to turn his attention from fanciful to actual space flights. By 1898, a deaf Russian schoolteacher named Konstantin Tsiolkovsky had calculated the mathematical laws of rocket motion and begun to publish scores of articles about space travel. His descriptions of earth satellites, liquid-fuel rockets, space suits, solar energy and the eventual colonization of the solar system, stimulated Russia's insatiable appetite for space travel...
...Make exchange rates more flexible. According to the present rules of the International Monetary Fund, exchange rates may vary no more than 1% from par, or else countries have to devalue. To prevent such unsettling measures, more and more economists-including some close consultants to Nixon-argue that currencies should be allowed to fluctuate up or down by 4% or 5%. Then governments would not be forced to take sudden measures to restrict their domestic economies and restrain their imports-moves that hurt all consumers...