Word: neared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mystical Code. For 5½ years Dr. Guarducci and her sister Maria pored over the strange crisscross of signs and letters in the grottoes beneath the altar, comparing them with those in the catacombs in and near Rome. Gradually, the searchers began to find significant repetitions, and meanings began to take shape...
...great monastery of El Escorial near Madrid, in the mid-1700s, a young Spanish priest named Antonio Soler used to teach music to His Most Serene Highness the Infante of Spain, Don Gabriel de Borbón. For the Infante's further diversion, Father Soler specially composed six sprightly duo-organ concertos. At their first U.S. performance last week, by Organist E. Power Biggs and Composer-Harpsichordist Daniel Pinkham, the concertos proved just as happily diverting to a modern audience as they must have been in Don Gabriel...
...needles point to the magnetic north and south poles. As magnetic theory developed, scientists realized that the lines of force must arch high above the atmosphere. More than 50 years ago they began to speculate on how charged particles such as electrons would behave in the vacuum of space near the earth...
Died. John ("General") Sailing, 112, one of the two surviving veterans of the Civil War, sometime railroader, farmer, logger, horse trader and moonshiner, who served three years as a Confederate private, mainly digging saltpeter for gunpowder in the hills near his lifelong home in Slant, Va.; of pneumonia; at a clinic in Kingsport, Tenn. Mountaineer Sailing, a rocking-chair pacifist ("Wars are all part of some scheme"), outlived the last Union soldier-Albert Woolson, who died in Duluth, Aug. 2, 1956-but not the Confederacy's Walter W. ("Old Reb") Williams, who lives in Houston and is the Civil...
NUCLEAR BOMBER will be designed by Convair, which won Government nod over Lockheed. The near-sonic plane, to be powered by a G.E. nuclear plant, would be roughly the size...