Word: gathered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buckley Jr. (National Review) to Wisconsin Industrialist Herbert Kohler (of Kohler). When a speaker mentioned Herbert Hoover's name, the audience roared; Ike's name got polite applause mixed with boos; Harry Truman, silence. But the lion of the evening-as he invariably is whenever conservatives gather-was Arizona's handsome, articulate junior Senator, Barry Goldwater...
...appears to be the New Turkey Party, led by pro-Western Ekrem Alican, 45. Trained at the London School of Economics, handsomely smooth Alican was a Democrat who broke with Menderes five years ago. He was the junta's Finance Minister until he quit two months back to gather together his New Turks. Alican made up for the lack of a party program by circumspect courting of ex-Democrats. ("Many honest people voted Democratic, and they will be welcomed by us.") But when the party's ten founders applied for permission to dub their new grouping either...
Mystery Planet. Again, the U.S.S.R. did not disclose what observations, if any, the station will make when and if it gets to Venus. Since Venus is practically unknown inside its eternal layer of opaque clouds, very simple instruments should be able to gather important information about it. No one knows whether it has a magnetic field, or even whether it rotates on its axis. Its surface may be hot, dusty and stirred by terrific winds; it may be covered by a single deep ocean, perhaps made of petroleum instead of water. Any shred of information about the mystery planet will...
Social Relations does not even pretend to offer junior tutorial. Instead, it requires concentrators to take what it calls "Junior Seminars," in which groups of about a dozen students gather to do research. Teaching this may be, but tutorial...
...juvenile sand-throwers. Suddenly a wild-looking man garbed like an Old Testament prophet loped across the sand and hurled himself into the waves. Loungers looked up, transistor-radio earplugs popped out of ears. Again and again the man plunged into the sea, and a crowd began to gather. Before people knew what had happened, they were listening to the dripping prophet tell the story of Naaman the leper, who threw himself seven times into the River Jordan and was miraculously healed...