Word: melts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...salamanders that came to life after being frozen solid for 5,000 years; a semiconductor device that gives out more energy than is fed into it; a monster that leaves tracks on the bottom of the ocean; a heavy mass of ice that fell from space and did not melt; a mysterious force pervading the universe that makes all revolving bodies, such as Earth, take on a heartlike shape...
...across the face of India. In 1964 the world is hungry for electric power as never before-and is struggling to overcome a shortage of it. From Singapore, where new entrepreneurs hawk the output of 10-kw. mobile generators, to Switzerland, where ancient glaciers help turn turbines as they melt, East and West this year are expected to consume a staggering three trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity. That is double 1954's consumption-and by 1974 the total is expected to double again...
...first, backers of Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater figured that he had at least a 4-to-l lead in New Hampshire over New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller. But ever since, they have watched that margin melt away. First came the attrition caused by President Kennedy's assassination. Then more avowed and write-in candidates got into the race. Then Barry dispersed slapdash political ideas in a lackluster campaign. Now, with the presidential primary coming up next week, Senator Norris Cotton, who is Goldwater's New Hampshire manager, admitted that "anything above...
...weather has been just about as warm in Hanover as in Cambridge recently, and the snow has begun to melt on the courses. Dartmouth has hauled snow in by truck from the surrounding countryside, however, and the tracks should be covered, if somewhat wet, for the races...
...smaller roles have almost all been shortened considerably; few characters have time to make any impression on the stage. Instead they seem to melt into choruses behind Tamburlaine, enemies foretelling his downfall, counsellors feeding his ego. Once in a while a reader stands out from the faceless crowd--Dean Gitter as Cosroe and Phillip Hecksher as Techelles bring some life to their parts. A few of the 42 parts are also noticeably bad; Richard Backus races through the brief prologue at breakneck speed and Jeremiah Tower seems to feel that Mycetes must be made monotonous in order to show that...