Word: nine
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President Pusey will climax his first official visit to the West Coast tonight with an address before the combined Harvard Clubs of Southern California. The event, which marks the first visit of a University President to the Coast in nine years, is scheduled to attract 1000 alumni, family and friends to the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles...
...classroom of the Hattingen trade-union school might have been a military briefing, except that the men wore mufti and talked of such unmilitary objectives as office keys, filing cabinets and street addresses. Intently they took instruction from an incisive young man, then hurried off in automobiles to nine cities of West Germany's industrial Ruhr. At the stroke of 8 next morning, the nine men led small groups of assistants into nine regional offices and the headquarters of the big Northrhine-Westphalia Building Workers' Union, seized the offices and the files...
...tiny gyros, bearings and electronic components must be manufactured with a super-watchmaker's precision. The job is done in a great, windowless factory on the desert outside Tucson, Ariz. No speck of dust can be tolerated. The air is changed by fans and filters every nine minutes, and positive air pressure is maintained inside the building so that any air leakage will be outward, not inward. Engineers in the drafting rooms are forbidden to tear paper or use pencil erasers (both make dust), and all employees must wear nylon smocks. Among the best assembly workers are crippled...
Health Minister Robert Turton announced that Britain has developed a modified Salk vaccine, which will be available this year for 250,000 to 500,000 children aged two to nine. Main difference from the U.S. anti-polio vaccine: substitution of the milder Brunhilde strain of Type I virus for the more virulent Mahoney strain, on the ground that if any live virus slips through, Brunhilde is less likely to cause serious paralysis...
Lincoln's eldest son, Robert Todd, was born nine months less three days after the Lincolns were married. His left eye was crossed, and something prim, shy and self-contained in his personality rasped always against his father's. When Bob was small, Lincoln low-rated him as "the little rareripe sort, that are smarter at about five than ever after." Edward, the next son, died at three. It was of him Lincoln spoke ("Here one is buried") when, as President-elect, he bade goodbye to his Springfield neighbors. Third son William Wallace was a blue-eyed "blessed...