Word: eves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both races were already here when Adam and Eve came onto Earth and began the white race. A man named Usher, Bishop Usher, claimed that Adam and Eve were born only 6,000 years ago. But he was wrong. He made an error of exactly 1400 years, and clergymen would tell you so if they only did their homework...
...ceaseless stream of announcements, the most notable being that he plans to visit Europe and Latin America early in 1967. Back in Washington, he whittled down a stack of paper work. "Look at that desk!" he told Lady Bird and White House Aide Bill Moyers on the eve of the operation. "That's cleaner than it's been in three years." He corrected himself. "No, that's the desk I had in the Senate. It's cleaner than it's been in 15 years...
...museums and college art departments, with Jacqueline Kennedy as its active president. Its aim: to raise $2,500,000 for salvage operations. One of its first acts: to dispatch 16 expert restorers to the site to help out. But the biggest requirement is helping hands. One California art historian, Eve Borsook of Pasadena, who rescued 130,000 negatives of art objects from the Uffizi, rushed them to Harvard's Villa I Tatti in Florence, the former hilltop home of Connoisseur Bernard Berenson. Then she carefully washed them one by one, saved them...
...cunning barber hero of the Beaumarchais play, Figaro survived a succession of inept owners, became a daily in 1866. Somehow, it weathered all storms. By supporting Dreyfus in his epic battle with the French army, it lost half its circulation, but the readers slowly returned. On the eve of World War I, the wife of Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux, offended by the paper's attacks on her husband, shot and killed Editor Gaston Calmette. During...
Though 2,000,000 students are deferred, draft boards will be looking more closely at grades. In all, the classifications of 2,505,540 men-not counting 2,498,023 4-Fs-are being reviewed. Last week, in the course of an optimistic election-eve report on Viet Nam, McNamara predicted that draft calls would be halved during the next four months because of a slower rate of buildup for the war. Nevertheless, Selective Service officials declared, the review of present exemptees will proceed apace, to replenish the manpower drain to date and prepare for contingencies...