Word: ores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...university is the brain center of the state. It houses the Minneapolis Symphony, the Twin Cities' main longhair radio station, a theater, a natural history museum. From the university's labs have come hardier hogs, wheat and strawberries. By developing a way to extract iron ore from low-grade taconite. the university helped save northern Minnesota's depleted Mesabi Range...
Yale & Starvation. Rothko's father was a Russian Jewish pharmacist who took his family to the U.S. in 1913. Rothko grew up in Portland, Ore., with nary a thought of becoming an artist: he wanted to be a labor leader. He attended Yale, dropped out to ''wander around, bum about, starve a bit." It was not until 1925, when he was 22, that he settled down in Manhattan to attend Max Weber's art classes at the Art Students League. He did not stay long. As a painter, Mark Rothko is almost wholly self-taught...
...Newcomers: Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, Los Angeles-Long Beach, St. Louis, Kansas City, Mo., Peoria, Akron, Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, Asheville, Corpus Christi, Flint, Grand Rapids, Knoxville, Louisville, Mobile, Newark, New Brunswick-Perth Amboy, Portland, Ore., Savannah, Tacoma, Toledo, Trenton, Worcester, and York...
Life Is a Game. "I've remained a boy at heart," said Gilbert, "I've introduced only items that appealed to me-and I figured they would appeal to all boys." Gilbert's long boyhood began in Salem, Ore., where he won his first contest-a tricycle race-when he was seven, and immediately began to form the philosophy that ruled his life: "Everything in life is a game, and the important thing is to win." A frail boy, Gilbert built himself into a superb athlete, became an expert at wrestling, track, bag punching, pole vaulting...
...develop Argentina's state-owned oilfields, a task the oilmen proceeded to work at so diligently that Argentina expects to turn from an importer to an exporter of oil this year. He let foreign power companies expand Argentine electric power production, threw open the nation's iron-ore beds to overseas investors...