Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cassius Marcellus Clay was in Londontown last week, and he had a lean and hungry look. "I am the prettiest fighter you ever did see," he cried. "The prettiest-and the loudest." Five was Cassius' magic number, the round in which he promised to demolish Henry Cooper, 29, a onetime house plasterer who claims the British and Empire Heavyweight championships. But that was two weeks off. In the meantime, there were 55,000 tickets to be sold, and Cor, luv, wot larks...
...Down. The months in between have produced only minor shifts. And yet this time they could prove decisive. Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, 68, founding father of the revolutionary-turned-reformist APRA party, still retains much of his old magic for Peru's peasants and workers. But he disillusioned many supporters in 1962 by trying to make a quick postelection deal to share power with an old enemy, ex-Dictator Manuel Odría. Important unions that once turned out a solid APRA vote have been taken over by far-leftists, who have no liking...
...molecule made of two ordinary carbon-nitrogen rings. But to biochemists, it is one of the keys of life. It takes part in the formation of a long list of vital substances, and it is one of the five "bases" that are built into DNA and RNA, the magic nucleic acids that control the reproduction and heredity of all living organisms. Since the first life probably appeared on earth when chemicals already dissolved in sea water formed a giant molecule that had the power to reproduce itself, it is likely that this ancestral molecule was a nucleic acid...
...Daughters. The magic of India's Satyajit Ray, who directed the Apu trilogy and Devi, lies in his ability to translate the life around him into such universal terms that Western audiences see his India not as a gold-embroidered slum peopled with mystics and mendicants but as an identifiable place where ordinary humans go about their ordinary lives. Two Daughters, a two-part film based on short stories by Rabindranath Tagore, is so filled with the basic stuff of humanity that with minor changes of script it could have been made in rural Louisiana...
...into a mystic world. His life was plagued by occult phenomena (poltergeists threw his books about; blinding pain awakened him at the instant a patient was committing suicide), and his dreams even came to include flying saucers. In the morning he would ponder: perhaps the flying saucer is a magic lantern, and I-I am only the picture it projects...