Word: logs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even tried. Trying to please Khrushchev, Sokolov now said that his region planned to build agro-cities on big state farms to replace villages. Khrushchev has approved plans to create the first such agro-city 20 miles south of Moscow. There peasants uprooted from their scattered traditional one-room log huts (isbas) are to have separate one-family flats in four-story apartment buildings...
Died. Clyde Tingley, 77, two-term Governor of New Mexico (1935-39) who was born in an Ohio log cabin, became proudly skilled as a political logroller (boasting that he brought $100 million in New Deal projects to the state) and proudly independent as a grammarian ("I ain't gonna quit saying 'ain't'"); of a heart attack; in Albuquerque. A vanishing echo of The Last Hurrah school, Tingley ran Albuquerque politics for 37 years from a hotel-lobby easy chair...
Archaeologists have long been suspicious of Columbus' log. After years of digging in graves and townsites of the Indians who then inhabited the Caribbean islands, they found only three tiny scraps of gold. It looked to them as if the "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" had sweetened the record to increase the attractiveness of the lands that he discovered. But last week Anthropologist Paul W. Barker of Maine's Gorham State Teachers College vindicated Columbus. In northern Haiti, he reported, he dug up two golden pendants just like those described by Columbus. Barker may even have found them...
...wires to transmit facsimile handwriting and sketches, 5) an automatic merchandiser that dispenses clothing, makes change from dollar bills, 6) an electronic system linking an airline's ticket offices throughout the U.S., 7) a cart for big-chef barbecues, 8; a plastic balloon building, 9) a 50-ton log stacker, 10) a tree crusher, 11) a transistor radio as small as a sugar cube, 12) a language-translating machine, 13) an underwater torpedo retriever, 14) a movable island crane, 15 ) a high-speed ditch digger, 16) a "pickle picker," 17) a hay pelletizer that makes cookies for cows...
...moving onto the floor. The chief Republican battler was Dwight Eisenhower, showing a combativeness that he had rarely displayed during his long struggle with Democratic majorities in Congress. He got the session off to a fighting start with a first-blow message calling upon Congress to break the "legislative log jam" and enact 21 measures that he had been calling for since last spring...