Word: crystallizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pagoda last week to witness what most of them believed to be a miracle. Amid the fragrance of incense-burning reeds, yellow-robed priests chanted from sunrise to midnight, laymen gazed in awe, and weeping women held children up to see it all. On the altar, inside a crystal urn, which in turn was encased in a bouquet-flanked glass chest, lay the object of their reverence-a charred piece of flesh. Over it a hand-lettered sign announced: "The Eternal Heart of High Priest Quang...
...Crystal Pebbles. Minas Gerais had an earlier awakening, nearly three centuries ago. In 1693 the cry "Gold!" roared through Brazil, and within ten years the country was the world's leading gold producer, accounting for about 44% of the total. The miners also ran across odd crystalline stones-and kept a few to use as counters in idle-hour card games. The pebbles were diamonds. When the news got out, a second headlong rush was on. Between 1730 and 1800, more than 3,000,000 carats came from the mines...
...million expansion program last week, and Dominion Foundries & Steel has announced a $20 million expansion. The outlook for farm machinery is "excellent, first-class," says George Vincent, president of Cockshutt Farm Equipment. Automakers expect a 24% production increase this year to a record 530,000 cars. "My crystal ball reads five years of real good times," says American Motors (Canada) President Earl K. Brownridge...
...days, Sweden's Major General Carl von Horn, 59, idled beside the crystal pool of Beirut's Hotel Phoenicia. Then marching orders came from the United Nations in New York: by a 10-0 vote, with the Soviet Union abstaining, the Security Council last week approved Secretary-General U Thant's plan to send a U.N. truce team to strife-torn Yemen...
...proceedings will begin at 6 p.m. with sherry and greetings from Dean Ford. After dinner William G. Field, graduate student of Geology and chief of the crystal growth section of the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, will give an illustrated lecture on "Recent Advances in the Study of Crystal Growth," and R. Gordon Wasson, research fellow in the Botanical Museum, will speak on "Recent Discoveries in the Area of Mexican Hallucinogenic Plants...