Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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M.I.T.'s 350 million copper needles are lost in space. Scientists cannot even as-certain if the one-half inch wires sent aloft to relay radio signals were ejected from their orbiting container, according to George R. Huguenin, senior engineer for the Space Radio Project...
During Nepal's eight-day festival of Indra-jatra, the Kumari works hard at the goddess trade-receiving the homage of King Mahendra, being toted through the city in a gilt-covered copper carriage drawn by 25 men, giving her worshipers tika (a dot of white powder on their foreheads), getting used to sitting quietly on her throne...
...tumbled, irrigation systems shattered, imperial warehouses emptied; the enormous llama herds that provided meat and clothing were scattered and slaughtered. The conquistadors cut the richer lands of the Andean foothills into immense haciendas worked by Indian peasants held virtually as slaves. Today, while Peru exports cotton, sugar, silver and copper, it must import food to maintain even a marginal existence for the bulk of its 10 million people. Half the population is illiterate; undernourished children die of such simple maladies as measles and diarrhea...
...archaeologists also found several little blobs of copper, identical in shape and weight with the earliest know gold and silver coins of Lydia. They may prove to be the earliest units of small currency and thus of importance in finding out how the Lydians happened to invent money...
...small church of a copper-belt town in Northern Rhodesia, Dag Hammarskjold lay in state...