Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...character of the 1,000,000 Europeans of Algeria. They hold French citizenship, but only one-quarter of them are of French origin. The rest are immigrants, or descendants of immigrants, from Spain, Italy, Greece, Malta, Corsica and other Mediterranean lands. Out of this melting pot has emerged a distinct race who call themselves pieds-noirs, or "black feet" (supposedly because most of their ancestors arrived without shoes), combining Spanish poise with Italian
...Power. Behind such subtle, sometimes facetiously stated, changes of attitude lies the central story of a U.S. President coming of age. Personality is a key to the use of presidential power, and John Kennedy in 1961 passed through three distinct phases of presidential personality. First, there was the cocksure new man in office. Then, after the disastrous, U.S.-backed invasion of Cuba (in White House circles, B.C. still means Before Cuba), came disillusionment. Finally, in the year's last months, came a return of confidence-but of a wiser, more mature kind that had been tempered by the bitter...
Last week, all that was verboten. The Communists curtly refused appeals by West Berlin's senate and the German Red Cross for an easing of border restrictions during the holidays. As distinct from West Berliners, West Germans can still enter East Berlin if they have sufficient stamina and persistence. Hundreds lined up as Vopos pawed over their grey identification cards. "Do you always have to wait this long?" asked a man in the queue. A woman answered: "No. They're just making it hard for us. They want us to think twice before we come here again...
Time was when all talk of communication between earthbound man and creatures on other planets seemed like a product of far-out science fiction. Today radio astronomers discuss such interplanetary conversation as a distinct possibility. In the magazine Science, German Astronomer Sebastian von Hoerner demonstrates with intricate mathematical logic that planets suitable for life may be fairly common among the stars. On some of those planets, says Von Hoerner, there may well be creatures intelligent enough to transmit radio messages across the enormous distances of interstellar space. But for all this skill, he says, such highly developed civilizations will rarely...
Television has its faults as an advertising medium, said Cone. Its aim is indiscriminate and low. But the newcomer also has some distinct virtues as a vendor. "There are certain areas in advertising and selling where the sheer size of its audience, combined with the low cost of reaching it, makes television an almost mandatory medium." Certainly, no other medium can do a better job in peddling kitchen scouring pads-a job that Cone's agency gave to Gertrude (Molly Goldberg) Berg: "Who, except the makers, wants to argue the merits of competitive brands? This is where television...