Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Literacy Test. In Klamath Falls, Ore., Clarence Strode, 22, after a hitch in prison during which he had been taught to read and write, was arrested for passing bad checks...
...third respect in which the "Yale Plan" is unique is the lack of fixed course requirements. Students who can demonstrate competence in the field of knowledge covered by a course are encouraged to accept special assignments, such as participation in instruction or research in the field, or ore excused from attendance and given additional time for elective work...
...Wolfe believes that the earth has suffered from this blister disease since its early years. The blisters have invaded all sorts of rocks, cooking out of them the minerals that they contain. He suggests that geologists look for blisters, ancient or modern, and then look for the ore deposits that their cooking has formed...
...decay and to be harmless. But in many areas, fluoridation has been opposed as premature or worse yet as "socialized medicine" or "forced medication." Of eleven communities that had the question up for a vote last week, nine voted against fluoridation, notably Atlantic City, N.J. (pop. 61,667), Salem, Ore. (43,140), Greensboro, N.C. (74,389), Birmingham, Ala. (326,037) and Fremont, Neb. (14,762). Approving fluoridation: Mountain Home, Ark. (2,217) and Palo Alto, Calif...
...some 1,300, but the air is also filled with thousands of private and military planes. When bad weather slows landings and takeoffs, the traffic problem becomes dangerously acute over the nation's four busiest airways: Boston-Norfolk, New York-Chicago, San Francisco-San Diego, Seattle-Portland, Ore. Planes bound for New York are often held up for an hour in Cleveland until the congestion over Manhattan can be ended. Delays are not only irritating to passengers, but costly to airlines. "Stacking" (i.e., circling, awaiting landing permission) costs airlines from $156 to $360 per plane-hour...