Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...QUEEN MINASEEH desperately wants to make it at the hop this time after three close calls...
Written by Hopper, Fonda, and Terry Southern, arch prostitute at large, Easy Rider inherits from the Western a large quantity of corn, what intellectuals like to call folk poetry, and a simplistic moral schema. There are good guys, like Captain America, drooled over in infatuated close-ups, and bad guys, the yahoos of the South and over-thirty America in general. The good guys are warding off the yahoos (a young commune member prays to God "Thank you for a place to make a stand.") Billy and Wyatt die because they are free, like all good guys. (Hanson says: "They...
Mariner 6's final photographs did not show any signs of life-but JPL scientists had already warned that even at the spacecraft's relatively close distances, vegetation would be all but unobservable. The two Mariners, moreover, were designed only to determine whether Mars could support life. At week's end, investigators were already mulling over two important observations. Mariner 6 had failed to detect any nitrogen -an ingredient of all earthly life -but it found signs of water in the form of ice in the Martian atmosphere or on the surface...
...below 800 to a point even lower than it was five years ago. At midweek, a long-awaited rally suddenly began. The Dow struggled up H points on Wednesday, its first gain in almost two weeks. In the week's final two days, it jumped 23 points, to close at 827. The rally at first was fired by false rumors that banks planned to reduce their 81% prime interest rate. Brokers called the rebound a sign that investors were eager to jump at almost any chance that the oversold market might reverse itself. Few were willing to predict, however...
...quality motor oil is only 80% to 85% petroleum; the rest is a complex blend of chemicals that are added to keep it from thinning out, prevent engine deposits and neutralize the acids that are byproducts of combustion. The big oil companies - such as Gulf, Mobil and Texaco - work close ly with auto producers to devise formulas that will meet the specific needs of each engine, depending upon its horsepower and the climate in which the car is usually driven. Still, many motorists attempt to outguess the experts by using additives, which are usually made by companies other than...