Word: eights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...APOLLO 10. The eight-day mission scheduled to begin May 18 will put Veteran Astronauts Thomas Stafford, Eugene Cernan and John Young into lunar orbit for 62 hours. Apollo 10, according to Stafford, will "tie together all the knots and sort out all the unknowns" before U.S. astronauts set foot on the moon in a mission that is now scheduled for launch on July...
...some surprise that this sensitive job would go to a non-Italian, the appointment was in keeping with Paul's long-declared intention of internationalizing the Curia. Two years ago, 20 of the 24 highest posts in the Vatican bureaucracy were held by Italian prelates; now, only eight top posts are held by Italians. "This is what we have been demanding," said John Cardinal Wright of Pittsburgh, one of four Americans who received their red birettas last week. "The Pope is meeting us more than halfway." Cardinal Wright was appointed to succeed Villot as Prefect of the Congregation...
Analyzed monthly by the Commerce Department, the leaders are indexes that tend to foreshadow the pattern of production, paychecks and prices. In October, the leaders began to level off; for the next five months they zigzagged. During March, to judge by the eight indicators for which the results were in last week, they dropped about 1 %. The apparent shift of the leaders strengthens forecasts of a salutary slowdown in the second half...
Turnaround. Only two of the eight leaders-the average manufacturing work-week and prices of industrial materials-are still rising. The other six point down. Among them are the pace of nonfarm hiring, the ratio of prices to manufacturing labor costs, and stock prices as measured by the Standard & Poor's index of 500 stocks. The stock indicator does, however, show a rise for April. Overly excited by European political events and peace prospects in Viet Nam, investors sent the 500 up by 2.28 points last week to close at 104; the narrower Dow-Jones average of 30 industrials...
...whereupon he brought Hitler into the government-and swiftly found himself superseded. He then served the Führer, first as Vice Chancellor and later as ambassador to Turkey until war's end, when he was convicted of being a major Nazi offender and sentenced to eight years in a labor camp. His sentence was later reduced to two years...