Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reality. He stressed the sameness of the two worlds, ignored or abolished the differences, reconciled the generations. If at times the results were mawkish, Disney scarcely gave it a thought. He saw his own role as the fantasist animating the warm dreams that men and children refuse to let die...
...budget, Strauss did exactly what Erhard had wanted to do: increased taxes on gasoline and tobacco. The new political alignment made all the difference: Strauss's bill to collect an additional $375 million in revenues zipped through the Bundestag with a healthy majority. Marveled Hamburg's Die Welt: "Financial problems that the Erhard government kept putting off until it broke up over them are now settled almost overnight in lightning procedures...
...transports and flew them through parabolic arcs, creating 30 seconds of zero gravity during each maneuver. In the brief period of weightlessness, they ignited a variety of materials within the test chambers and took color movies of the results. Though the fires lit up promptly, the flames began to die down within 1½ seconds; they simply smoldered or went out completely during the remaining period of weightlessness. Scientists estimated that the burning rates of test materials were reduced by as much...
Slow Route. Bestsellers are about as rare as the publisher's ability to pick them. Most trade books still get printed in runs of 5,000 copies or under, sell a few thousand copies over a period of three months, and then quietly die. The surplus is remaindered-sent back to the publisher, who is lucky to get 300 a copy from the remainder bookstores, which deal in such wrong guesses. Multiplied many times over, this is the true picture of the adult book business which, except for the appearance of the paperback, has not changed its ways appreciably...
...Massachusetts Executive Council, in a related move, acted wisely and generously Wednesday when it voted to grant convicted murderer Charles E. Tracy a six-month respite from execution. In December, 1963, Tracy was sentenced to die for the shooting of Patrolman James J. Gallagher in a Boston bank on May 25, 1962. He was to have been electrocuted this month...