Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charisma of the really successful politician. His title draws enormous respect from the masses, and at the same time his genuine charm and easygoing manner quickly win their confidence. Though he is a devout Moslem, Abdul Rahman enjoys brandy and soda; he is also an excellent curry cook. With his third wife, Sharifah Rodzia, and their four adopted children (two of whom are Chinese),* the Tunku leads a life of cheerful disorder in Kuala Lumpur's open, airy Prime Minister's residence, allows the 70 children of his servants the run of the house; visiting diplomats are often...
...victories last June, up to 10 Social Credit seats are gravely challenged. Quebec voters now find Social Credit a more confusing party than the party of last June. The party now has three voices in Quebec--often conflicting--that of the mercurial Caouette, the party leader Thompson and Mr. Cook, the popular, somewhat dissident member from Montmagny L'Islet. It is perhaps fair to ask how long such a divided party can stand as a valid repository of Quebec allegiance, especially when Quebec voters like their choices to be clear-cut and forthright...
...They seem as solid and substantial as Saturn itself. But astronomers know better: the great rings are really next to nothing at all. Stars shine right through them, and when they turn edge-on toward earth they vanish completely. This should not be surprising, say Drs. Allan Cook and Fred Franklin of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, Mass. The beautiful rings, as the two astronomers see them, are less than 8 in. thick...
...sunlight is falling on the rings from over the earth's shoulder, the rings get suddenly brighter. This effect can be explained by an assumption that the rings are made of small particles, probably ice, and that the nearer ones cover the shadows that they cast on others. Cook and Franklin measured the rate of brightening with precise modern instruments and decided that about one-twentieth of the rings' volume is filled with particles of ice-fog that are about one one-thousandth of an inch in diameter. Only if they are arranged in a sheet less than...
...addition, many choose to avoid the dorms voluntarily. Those coming from the Middle and Far East--about 50 per cent of GSAS foreign students--prefer to live in apartments, since this allows them, for instance, to cook their native dishes. Of the 100 GSAS students who do live in the graduate dorms, a large majority are Europeans...