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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because of its heavy trade in narcotics and firearms. It was unclear, however, just how much of the federation remained for the Sultan to govern. While the army looked the other way, another band of N.L.F. guerrillas made off with yet another member of the government, the Sultan of Lower Yafa. By week's end, the National Liberation Front-at present the stronger of the rebel groups-claimed it had gained control of ten states and would soon "overthrow the rest of the reactionary feudalists." An eleventh state had fallen to F.L.O.S.Y., and only five-plus Aden itself-remained...
John F. Kennedy's campaign claim that "17 million Americans go to bed hungry every night" was based on nothing more than a 1955 Department of Agriculture study on eating habits, which reported that, along with predictable diet deficiencies in lower-income groups...
Paleontologist Ho depends on neither time travel nor thermometers for measuring ancient body temperatures. Instead, he works with collagen, a protein found in human and animal connective tissue and skeletal structures. Aware that the proportion of an imino acid, hydroxyproline, is lower in the collagen of cold-water fish than in fish that swim in warmer waters, Ho reasoned that the composition of collagen in warm-blooded animals might vary with their body temperatures...
...this fall, A.M.C. plans to add an even jazzier car to the bait next winter. Called the AMX, it will be a two-seat, high-performance sports car that, says Luneburg, will compare "in every way" to the Corvette-except that A.M.C. plans to sell it at a markedly lower price...
Author Norwich is fascinated by the stocky warriors who came down from Normandy as pilgrims and found the lower Italian peninsula, with its brittle alliances and private wars, exactly to their taste. The Normans raised sword against anyone who blocked their way, even the Popes, to whom they swore fealty. As Norwich writes, they "mastered the art of being on the winning side...