Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he fails, death is God's will. Mental illness is always rated as supernatural, and the "hex" must be taken off by prayer or some magic ritual. But because the brujos understand the Mexican-American psychology, they score higher than doctors in curing mental illness...
Heated by 17,500 curies (a measure of radioactivity), the little cylinder acts as a magic, almost eternal fire, producing 100 watts of heat. Surrounding thermocouples yield five watts of electricity, enough to supply all power needs. Waste heat is regulated so that it keeps the station's electronic works at a steady...
...Arctic. It is expected to work unattended for at least two years, transmitting by radio every three hours the temperature, barometric pressure, wind direction and velocity at its bleak location. Should a polar bear or an arctic fox come sniffing around, it will not be damaged by radiation. The magic fire will be underground and shielded from the world by three-quarters of a ton of lead...
...Latin American nations, Mexico has waved the magic wand of land reform longest. Before the 1910 revolution, 97% of Mexico's farm land was held by 836 owners. Today 65% of the old haciendas have been divided into cooperatives, the rest given to small farmers. But now even in well-reformed Mexico, the need to feed a suddenly ballooning population grows daily-along with a peasant land hunger fanned by the propaganda of Fidel Castro...
...Wide World of Sports series, offering a "$10,000 winner-take-all" prize. For nine sweaty hours, Palmer and Player, warming up for the 101st British Open at Birkdale this week, inched over the 6,936-yd. course, waiting for the lumbering tractors to haul the bluidy magic lanterns into position. Gibed The Scotsman: "A funeral procession could have given today's affair a start and a beating...