Word: ores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chances for a choice inkhululeko (independence) during the long wait. Swaziland has tripled its exports (to $58 million) in the past four years by completing a new, 140-mile railroad and by attracting such faraway customers as Japan, a major buyer of the kingdom's abundant iron ore. Beneath Swaziland's lush valleys and mountains are also gold, coal and asbestos. Cattle herds dot the sloping grassland, and citrus orchards and sugarcane fields flourish. Not the least of Swaziland's assets is the stabilizing unity of the Swazi tribe, to which all the new country...
Invasion of Privacy. Many police chiefs believe that such tests are an invasion of an applicant's privacy. Small towns claim that they are too expensive (cost of testing and interviewing a single recruit in Portland, Ore.: $100). And even New York cops normally take no personality tests. Instead, a team of 74 investigators prepares personal histories of up to 40 pages on each candidate after weeks of interviews with people who know...
Died. Earl Sande, 69, famed jockey, who won the Kentucky Derby three times, the Belmont Stakes five times in the 1920s and early '30s; of heart disease; in Jacksonville, Ore. Celebrated as that "handy guy Sande" by Damon Runyon, the spruce, sharp-tongued rider earned a place in sport's pantheon alongside Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey and Bobby Jones. He won 967 races and nearly $3,000,000 in purses before retiring...
...into what the Portuguese like to think will become the Ruhr of Africa. Among the area's natural resources are known reserves of nickel, copper and asbestos, plus a twelve-mile-long seam of coal and iron deposits that could produce an annual 1,000,000 tons of ore...
...Maryland governor had not been mentioned as a contender by any of the news media. The New York Times this morning devoted the second deck of an eight-column headline to the improving chances of Lindsay. Others considered likely by those who didn't know were Sen. Mark Hatfield (Ore.) and Sen. Charles Percy...