Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tested has heat-seeking guidance, he cannot use aircraft for fear the missile will turn on the planes. When aircraft can be used, they loiter as close as they dare. Sometimes they drop a flare to mark the impact. Sometimes the helicopters land and pick up small items, but fallen missiles are dangerous. Each carries a "destruct" charge to blow it to bits in case it heads for a place where it can do damage. Colonel Thum's recovery men are experts in the nasty business of disconnecting these charges without touching them...
...Defection. Hegger argues that there is a real need for his un usual kind of ministry. Last year the Archdiocese of Utrecht admitted that 180 Dutch priests were living outside the church. Hegger says that in Italy and France 6,700 priests have fallen away from Catholicism since World...
...East Germany the regime last week admitted that meat and milk production had fallen far short of the planned output. In Poland, which has largely returned to private agriculture, meat production is adequate, but floods have damaged much of the nation's essential potato crop. Bad weather has also struck Bulgaria, but this cannot excuse the fact that total farm production is only slightly higher than prewar. Wheat, once an export commodity, is now imported at a rate of up to 400,000 tons a year...
...half a dozen blue chips-including Allied Stores. General Motors, Jones & Laughlin and Royal Dutch Petroleum-with price-earnings ratios of less than 12 to 1 and dividend yields of 4% or more. For many stocks, yields were on the rise-and not only because stock prices had fallen so much. Last month 89 U.S. companies increased their dividends; in May of last year, only...
...taken a giant step into Greek tragedy. He should have stayed with the boys in Fort Lauderdale. Greek grandeur is not duplicated by a setting in Thebes (Mich.) or Greek name-dropping. Swarthout reads like a parody of a bad translation of Homer: "At last the leaves are fallen; then do men their duty to the tree-crop, rite singular to towns, to which only fathers and sons may be initiate: leaf burning . . . Wives and mothers watch, doing dishes, their heads and shoulders oracular in kitchen light...