Word: happening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Action & Reaction. Military moves, except in direct response to military moves by the Soviet-armed Syrians, were less likely than an economic and political quarantining of Syria. But Syria's own trumps are also economic. One thought that gives Western statesmen worry is what would happen if Syria were to cut not only her Iraqi pipelines but also the Tapline route from Saudi Arabia (see map); these pipelines carry one-third of the Middle East's oil output. If Egypt chose to close the Suez at the same time, the West would really...
...week's end a beardless Pilot Steeves., visibly shaken, stood by his story. Said he: "They can't disprove my story. How can they? Are they going to interview animals? Things happen miraculously to people in this day and age. I don't have anything to hide." Stationed at Boiling Air Force Base at Washington. D.C.. where he is undergoing tests in preparation for an instructorship in survival for airmen, Steeves waved emptily at the brandnew grey Jaguar he bought shortly before his famed adventure. "Look. I've lost everything in the world-my wife...
Social Security officials have always expected that the system might some day be temporarily strapped for cash. But they did not expect it to happen so soon or in such prosperous times. What went wrong...
...each thousand stricken. On one day alone, some 200 deaths were reported. Funeral homes sold out their coffins, and queues waited in cemeteries with their dead while laborers dug graves. Total deaths by week's end: 600. out of 700,000 cases-a bleak preview of what may happen in the U.S. when the disease arrives this fall (TIME...
...second. Hunting for an explanation, Minnesota scientists are still puzzling over their plates, frankly admit that they do not yet know the full significance of their big catch. "At this high energy," says Physics Professor Edward P. Ney, "I'd be surprised if something new didn't happen...