Word: everly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...failed. The ringleaders were quietly executed, so this tale went, and the unreliable Soviet army was forbidden to march through Red Square. Then there was the intriguing matter of General Valentin Penkovsky, most important of the dead generals-and the great-uncle of the most highly placed Russian ever to be recruited to spy for the West inside the U.S.S.R.-Oleg Penkovsky...
Probably Impermanent. The failure of the fedayeen within the occupied territories has made more urgent than ever the commando drive for freedom to strike at Israel from Lebanon. Last month the Lebanese Cabinet resigned in the aftermath of riots in support of the guerrillas. Since then, the country's leaders have sought an agreement with the fedayeen that would preserve the peace with Israel. Last week the two sides reached an uneasy, fragile-and probably impermanent-understanding. Lebanon will release arrested rioters and drop charges against them in return for a fedayeen promise not to bring on Israeli retaliation...
...listening," Nelson Rockefeller told his hosts. "What's wrong with listening? This is the first time a North American has ever come listening." The heads of state of the seven Central American countries, whom the New York Governor visited last week on the first leg of a 23-nation, four-stage mission for President Nixon, had plenty to tell...
Like any family, the Roosevelts have had their squabbles. But few ever reached the pitch of last week's affair when James Roosevelt, 61, was stabbed in the back by his wife Gladys, 52, at their home in Geneva, Switzerland. F.D.R.'s eldest son was rushed to a nearby hospital for emergency surgery, but the wound was apparently not serious...
...solar cycle, which averages eleven years, a few sunspots materialize about 35 degrees away from the solar equator in both the northern and southern hemispheres. Some last for a few days or weeks, others for months. As the cycle progresses, the spots occur with greater frequency and appear ever closer to the equator. About five years after the cycle begins, the sunspots increase to a maximum number, and appear around 15 degrees from the equator. During the next six years, the number of sunspots gradually decreases. Before the last of the old spots disappear, about five degrees from the equator...