Word: eight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end the Russian air control officer was still showing up every day to help approve Western flights to Berlin. One three-truck U.S. convoy was stopped for eight hours at the West Berlin gateway-but by Soviet, not East German guards; and hundreds of other trucks passed through without difficulty. In Moscow Nikita Khrushchev told graduates of Moscow's Military Academies that the Soviet Union had not meant to imply the use of force at Berlin, but that his government would soon offer the U.S., Britain and France "definite, concrete proposals regarding the status of Berlin...
Following Bumba's lead, the authorities began to exhume some bodies. Nine of them (eight men and a woman) were found to have been partly dismembered, apparently to make ritual meals for cannibals. Ten suspects were rounded up and they readily admitted murdering 34 victims, explained that they ate the hand muscles of their victims to gain the skillfulness of the murdered one, the heart and liver to acquire his courage, the sexual organs to gain his power. Like the famed Aniotas or leopard men, Belgian officials say, the murderers often wore hooded, waist-long cloaks of crocodile skin...
While air pollution is not pinpointed as the sole cause of increase in these death rates, it does affect "almost everyone and everything in eight principal ways: health, irritation, nuisance, soiling, corrosion, reduced visibility, damage to plants and damage to animals." For example, said Vernon MacKenzie, engineering chief of the air pollution program, auto fumes contain "well over 100 separate compounds, and some of these can later react in air to produce still other substances." This may be one reason why city v. country charts of disease rates show dramatic contrasts...
Selling the World. Booming domestic markets account for some of the expansion, e.g., Volkswagen has an eight-to-ten-months waiting list at home. But the bigger push is for exports, which gobble UP 57% of Volkswagen's production, 75% of Porsche's, 40% of Fiat's, 33% of Renault's output...
TOLL-ROAD TROUBLES are easing a bit, giving holders of $4.7 billion worth of bonds somewhat happier view of their investment. End of recession plus opening of important new access roads has boosted traffic to cover eight big turnpikes' current interest cost...