Word: manye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Contagion. Some of the oil fever rubbed off on bureaucratic, bumbling YPF. "The Americans are teaching us many new ways," said a YPF engineer last week. "They have instilled in the whole area an attitude that work can be fun, too." Now rating top priority in Frondizi's budget...
Aware that modern nuclear research is too expensive for any but the world's giant powers, twelve of Europe's nations* launched CERN in 1954 as a scientific venture in international cooperation. CERN's most ambitious project so far is the big accelerator. It cost $35 million...
For years, Italian Anthropologist Fabrizio Mori has been trekking into the Libyan Desert to look for graffiti, ancient inscriptions on rocks. Near the oasis of Ghat, 500 miles south of the Mediterranean coast, he found on his last expedition a shallow cave with many graffiti scratched on its walls. When...
The discovery suggested a clue to one of the great puzzles of Egyptology: Where was the birthplace of Egyptian culture? Although many authorities believe it is the world's oldest, they have been perplexed by the fact that it did not develop gradually in the Nile Valley. About 3200...
Reflecting the ever-swelling interest of the U.S. public in art, 1959 was the biggest year ever in what was once considered a minor idiosyncrasy of publishing-the art book. Across the land, art lovers can choose among 500 art books published in 1959, and among prices ranging from the...