Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that air at high altitude is so thin it offers little resistance. As the plane climbs higher, it flies faster, and its engines swallow more air through their gaping intakes. But the All finally must reach an altitude where the air is so thin that its engines cannot gather enough oxygen to keep them roaring healthily. Above this point the plane slows down despite the diminishing resistance. Most experts are convinced that the All's top speed is considerably above the 2,000 m.p.h. with which it is officially credited, and that it makes its best speed somewhere...
...bill is rejected--and a defeat in the House would effectively kill it--then opponents of the Council hope to gather a minimum of 11,000 signatures for a referendum in November...
Every month over one hundred girls, many underage, travel from the Deep South to Massachusetts in search of work. Boston employment agencies sponsor the trips and procure jobs for the girls. Many of these agencies also gather large profits by exploiting the naivete and confusion of their young clients...
Many Communist regimes are hungry enough for hard Western currency to relax travel restrictions and look the other way when East and West Berlin families gather for reunions counter to East German rules. When the night train from East Berlin pulls into Budapest's Keleti Talyaudvar (East Station), the platform scenes are moving replays of those that took place over the Christmas holidays in Berlin itself. Sweethearts fall into soundless clinches; old people weep as they see their grandchildren for the first time...
...Orgone Box is a half-forgotten invention of the late Dr. Wilhelm Reich, one of Sigmund Freud's more brilliant disciples, who in his middle years turned into an almost classic specimen of the mad scientist. The device was supposed to gather, in physical form, that life force which Freud called libido and which Reich called orgone, a coinage derived from "orgasm." The narrow box, simply constructed of wood and lined with sheet metal, offered cures for almost all the ills of civilization and of the body; it was also widely believed to act, for the person sitting inside...