Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have gone away with tantalizingly vague reports of a brand new peace feeler. Scores of others have worked up their own formulas for peace and reacted bitterly when nobody seemed interested in buying them. Last week two more episodes in this strange saga of diplomatic dilettantism came to light...
...order was issued after the five Sullivan brothers of Waterloo, Iowa, were lost aboard the torpedoed light cruiser U.S.S. Juneau. By coincidence, Captain Wes Gebert, who presided at John's induction, was on a nearby ship and saw the Juneau go down...
...population of the U.S. The same pigment, by filtering solar radiation, impedes synthesis of vitamin D, which prevents rickets and is manufactured from the sun's rays by the body. As early man migrated out of the tropical sun-into the green jungle, north to less torrid zones-light skin thereupon conferred an advantage by admitting more vitamin D-produc-ing sunlight. And the lottery of evolution, patiently awaiting the appropriate mutation, then fixed this advantage into place. Thus, over the centuries, environmental factors were producing genetic changes...
...Light Turnout...
...light turn-out of 155,000--about 56 per cent of the city's registered voters--produced 43,719 votes for Mrs. Hicks to White's 30,497. Unofficial returns put State Rep. John Sears, the first Republican in two decades to ener the non-partisan mayoralty race, in third place with 23,879. Edward Logue, former head of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, came in a close fourth with...