Word: moons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the end of the war came in creased rumblings of independence, and with them the appointment of Nehru as acting Prime Minister. Nehru's wife had died in 1936, and he summoned his beloved Indu (meaning Moon) to come to Delhi as his official hostess. Over her husband's strong objections, Indira took the boys and set out for New Delhi on a trip that was to lead her to the highest councils of government. (She separated from her husband in 1947; he died of a heart attack...
...Blue Moon...
...mostly Buddhist Ceylon last week, Sunday became just another working day. By act of Parliament, stores and government offices will henceforth close each month on four Buddhist feasts called poya days, corresponding roughly to the phases of the moon. The change amounts to a rejection of the custom of Sunday observance that has been standard in Ceylon since 1815, when the island was a British colony. But it does not really bespeak a trend; elsewhere, surprisingly, Sunday is gaining favor, even among countries that have religious reasons for preferring another...
...cost would be astronomical-as much as $5 billion. But the instrument could advance the infant art of radio astronomy to a rewarding maturity that might produce more scientific discoveries than the $40 billion program to put a man on the moon. And if while using their powerful instrument radio astronomers pick up a hint of an intelligent pattern in UHF signals from space, Oliver says, "an age-old question will have been answered. We will know that we are not alone...
...come to appreciate the importance of helping private business to invest in order to create jobs, income and demand. Johnson knows that he must have a vigorous economy to support his Great Society programs as well as the war in Viet Nam and the U.S.'s reach for the moon. To further that aim, he has more day-to-day contact with businessmen than any President since Hoover; he telephones hundreds of them regularly and invites scores to the Oval Room to hear their opinions. Under the atmospherics of the Johnson Administration, the U.S. has a Government whose economic policies...