Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seat Parliament. Last week, with the final votes still being counted, it was apparent that the Liberals held power-but only just. In the closest tally in years, the opposition Labor Party seemed likely to trim Prime Minister John Gorton's comfortable margin to at best a half-dozen seats...
...Vassar College, about 30 black women students seized part of the administration building at 3:20 a.m., locked themselves inside and vowed to "stop the school" until their demands for a black-studies program and separate black housing were met. At week's end the militants, having mobilized half of Vassar's 59 black students, ended their sit-in, saying they had won tentative agreement to their demands. > Langston University was roiled by the firing of President William H. Hale. About 450 students from the Oklahoma school, a predominantly black public campus, invaded the capitol and shouted...
...pioneering paleontologist, rushed off to see for himself. Sure enough, there were the fossilized bones of a small (7-ft.-long) creature that was later identified as Ammosaurus major, an inhabitant of the area 200 million years ago. But Marsh was already too late. The dinosaur's front half had already been carted away; the brownstone in which the fossils were encased had been cut into blocks and cemented into a new highway bridge...
...that showed distinct fossil markings. Back in New Haven, Ostrom made precise measurements. Though the fossil bones still must be carefully removed from their brownstone encasement. Ostrom is now convinced that the long search is over. One of the visible bones, he says, is an almost sure match to half of an Ammosaurus thigh bone recovered by Marsh 85 years...
...relaxed at 46, turns out to be 180° from the kind of executives I know back East. He sits behind a modern oval desk in a palatial three-room suite of offices that he has taken over as board chairman of Norton Simon, Inc., a year-and-a-half-old concern formed from Canada Dry, Hunt Foods, McCall's and other companies. The place is plush?driftwood walls, deep-pile carpet. The whole bit. He smiles and says, "Let's go outside." I follow him into the Norton Simon garden, and he takes off his jacket and we walk among...