Word: founds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whose reporting helped lead to the trial of Dr. Mario Jascalevich for the murders of three patients at a small New Jersey hospital, was jailed for contempt of court after refusing to turn over his notes to the trial judge. Farber was freed last month just before the jury found Jascalevich "not guilty," but the New Jersey Supreme Court had upheld the reporter's contempt conviction, along with the fines levied against the Times for refusing to surrender its own documents on the case...
More than 15 years after a battered old coin was discovered in an ancient Indian rubbish heap near the coastal town of Blue Hill, it was belatedly identified by scholars as a Norse artifact dating back to the 11th century-making it the oldest European object ever found in the U.S. What is more, the find reopened all the old arguments about who really discovered America: Columbus or some Viking predecessors...
...heart of the hubbub is a thin, badly worn and chipped silver disc about the size of a dime. On one side, it is stamped with a cross; on the other, with a stylized animal head. Found in 1961 by an amateur archaeologist named Guy Mellgren, the coin was turned over Animal head to the Maine State Museum in Augusta four years ago and described as a 12th century English coin. But Riley Sunderland, a retired military historian and also an amateur archaeologist, had his doubts about that identification. While vacationing in England last summer, he discussed the coin with...
...ingredients of each product on the package. But the consumer does not understand what many of those chemical names mean. Surely most buyers would be hard put to know after the longest head-scratching what might be the purpose of compounds like triethanolamine and imidazolidinyl urea, which are found in many cosmetics. One of them, for example, is Alexandra de Markoff s Countess Isserlyn Creme; it is a high quality makeup, commonly known as a foundation, that costs $25 for a 2-oz. jar. There are a few makeup creams that cost more and many that cost less...
...this man in the Fiji Islands? Because he owns one. "On the theory that everyone dreams of living on a Pacific island, we spent years looking for one to section into pieces of paradise," explains Sportsman-Publisher Malcolm Forbes, 59. The one he found was 3,000-acre Laucala. But that was in 1972, and since then Forbes has given up his resort idea. Last week, all decked out in lei and tropical duds, he teamed up with Fijian Prime Minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara to cut ribbons on some new projects that have to do with raising coconuts...