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Word: disposall (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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"A new mythology, essential to the twentieth-century American funeral rite has grown up--or rather has been built up step by step--to justify the peculiar customs surrounding the disposal of our dead... Gradually, almost imperceptibly, over the years the funeral men have constructed their own grotesque cloud-cuckooland...

Author: By J.michael Crichton, | Title: The American Way of Life and Death | 11/21/1963 | See Source »

Just to keep things from getting dull, Greek Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis sailed his 325-ft. pleasure palace, the Christina, to Jackie's whitewashed villa and put the yacht at her disposal. Jackie had no trouble finding uses for it. She threw a dinner party and a midnight shipboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Grecian Holiday | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

The onrush of technology has caught up thousands of people in its path and given man mastery over areas that he never dreamed of conquering. It has also created a few problems that never existed before, of course, but Tex Thornton and Litton Industries are confident that man will be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: An Appetite for the Future | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

The Generals. At week's end martial law was gradually eased, and some Buddhists and students were freed. There was little doubt that Nhu was in large measure responsible for running things, but there was no evidence that he was supplanting his brother; as far as could be detected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Coping with Capricorn | 9/6/1963 | See Source »

Irvine Ranch is the biggest private development project in the world?93,000 acres of open land adjoining the southern edge of sprawling Los Angeles. Originally this vast tract was an amalgam of three Spanish land grants put together in the 1880s by a group of San Francisco investors, headed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Land: The Man with The Plan | 9/6/1963 | See Source »

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