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Word: fours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Egypt first" feeling is shared, but the proponents of a separate peace have so far been unable to make a noticeable dent in Nasser's foreign policy. During four months of talks in Washington, the U.S. had won from the Soviets a tacit agreement to let Israel and Egypt work out their new borders themselves. But after Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko visited Cairo last month, Russia switched its stance and in a hard-lining note delivered two weeks ago echoed Arab demands for total Israeli withdrawal on all fronts to prewar lines. The Soviets also called for demilitarized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Commando Riposte | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...Count Carl von Rosen last month introduced his six-plane instant Biafran air force and at tacked Nigerian fighters on the ground, Nigeria finally reacted. A Swedish relief DC-7 flying for the Red Cross to Uli was shot down by a federal MIG, and its crew of four was killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria: Grim Anniversary | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...developing wolf mannerisms. But he is merely under temporary hypnosis, the victim of diamond thieves next door who have learned that jewels are secreted somewhere in the house. The dingaling and his partner carom like pinballs from stock comic character to cliche villain until the labyrinthine plot culminates in four different endings, from which the viewer can take his choice. The best choice is to watch reruns of Laugh-In instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Yawn-In | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...that Brown was slow in carrying it out. As a result, he staged mass rallies to push his reforms, organized three-student teams to work on every faculty member and turned his gift of gab on the administration. As president of the student body (and class president for all four years), he had the clout to mobilize hundreds of disciples with a single telephone call, which set off a chain of calls across the campus. In May, the university finally approved the new curriculum for a two-year experimental period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Peaceful Revolutionary | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...celestial speedometer, Dr. Edward K. Conklin, 27, used the faint field of high-frequency radiation that seems to blanket all parts of the heavens. These scattered signals, first detected by scientists of the Bell Telephone Laboratories four years ago, may well be the remnants of the primordial flash that, according to many astronomers, gave birth to the universe more than 10 billion years ago. Just as a cyclist feels more of a breeze when he rides with the wind in his face rather than at his back, the lingering radiation from the so-called "big bang" would appear slightly stronger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: Measuring Earth's Motion | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

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