Word: heights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expect Israel now to reconstruct the original powder keg that has exploded in her face three times in the past 20 years, sparked by the desire to blow her off the map, is the height of malicious folly. Yet this is what U.S.S.R.-U.A.R., Inc. proposes. Israel's new borders will have to be determined by its need for open and unchallenged life lines...
...Uncle Tom." At the height of the Tampa riots this month, Community Relations Commission Director James Hammond cannily located five Negro gang leaders, all but one of them with police records, outfitted them with white helmets and arm bands, and persuaded them to preach calm and restraint in the streets (TIME, June 23). As the volunteer patrol grew to 150, the leaders were astonished at its popularity. "In my neighborhood," said one, "as many as five or six guys would share one helmet. They'd say, 'Hey, man, it's my turn to wear that...
...left the skies red with flames. Two armored columns snaked out and around the Old City of Jerusalem. Within its ancient walls are nestled the holy sites of three world religions, and Israeli gunners and bombers had carefully spared it. The northern column fought its way to the commanding height of Mount Scopus. The southern column swept south, moving inexorably from hill to hill despite stubborn Jordanian Arab League resistance, until the Old City was encircled...
...fanlike leaves have since been found in Alaska. But it remained for Bonn University Paleobotanist Hans-Joachim Schweitzer to determine that an ancient plant called Pseudobornia ursina was actually a tree that grew as high as 65 ft.-50 million years earlier than other trees of comparable height are known to have appeared. On a recent expedition to Bear Island, Schweitzer reports in the current issue of the German journal Umschau, he unearthed the first portion of Pseudobornia trunk ever found, a 33-ft. fossilized section composed of bamboo-like segments. It was lodged at the base of a cliff...
...Verne, keeps physically fit by jogging five miles a day, exercising on his backyard trampoline or riding his palomino stallion Sun Up. The garden of his $50,000 ranch-style home is equipped with a pole-vaulting rig, and Richards claims he can still clear his best competition height of 15 ft. 6 in. He also has other interests. He owns an 8,000-acre ranch in Colorado and a film studio-an abandoned Methodist church-in La Verne...