Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that soft-landed on the lunar surface April 19. 1967. He and Bean would stroll for as long as 74 hours on the moon and collect up to 75 lbs. of lunar rock. Most important, Apollo 12 would leave behind a more sophisticated array of sensitive instruments than those left by Apollo 11. Powered by a nuclear generator, the Apollo 12 package would give scientists their first continuously operating observatory on another world. And there was an additional bonus: the first color telecasts from the surface of the moon...
...warning to Sato not to accept the U.S. proposal, Japanese students and workers threw bombs at U.S. installations, battled police in clashes that left at least one dead, 40 injured and more than 400 arrested. In an attempt to prevent Sato's plane from taking off, the demonstrators converged on Tokyo from all over the country, forcing the government to assign 22,000 riot and special police to guarantee that the Premier could take off safely for his flight...
...sensitively modeled face confirms the epitaph. More characteristic of Saint-Gaudens' portraiture is the low relief of the children of New York Lawyer Prescott Hall Butler. To the two sturdy boys in their Scottish kilts, the sculptor has brought the understanding of a psychologist. The youngster on the left looks ahead, stolid and unafraid, but his older brother is already touched with care, and places his arm protectively around the younger. Dr. Henry Shiff, an intimate of Saint-Gaudens, was a surgeon in the Confederate Army who retired to Rome after the Civil War and there aided the sculptor...
...Fordham University in The Bronx, 36 students barricaded themselves inside the administration building for seven hours to protest the school's failure to abolish ROTC. The students used lead pipes and buckets of hot water to repulse unarmed campus guards but fled when city police arrived. They left behind ransacked offices and a white bed sheet with the word revolution scrawled across it in red. Six students were arrested, and at least six campus guards were injured, one seriously...
...supposed to figure out what arrangement of pulleys, pegs, springs and strings is inside." The Moog Synthesizer is an electronic music maker that sells for anywhere from $3,500 to $8,000, depending on the model: "The synthesizers are built slowly, and before each one goes out, it is left on for a week and then dropped on the floor. This procedure helps to locate any construction flaws...