Word: page
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need to get more glamour and suspense back in the readers. The kids are tough little creatures. They learn to read, not because their parents or teachers want them to, but because they are interested enough to go on to the next page. They used to read excitedly about Hansel and Gretel pushing their grandma into the oven,* but the kids didn't go around afterward pushing their own grandmothers into the oven...
...commandos who had secretly landed in coastal Kwangtung province last fall. The Communists claimed that the interlopers planned to set up a "guerrilla corridor" in Kwangtung "to open the way for a subsequent military adventure of invading the mainland." To back up the story, Communist newspapers splashed front-page pictures of the captured agents and their stockpiles of U.S. rifles, grenades, and plastic demolition equipment...
Among the show's well-polished highlights are the gleaming heirlooms loaned to the museum and shown on the opposite page. The tankard has a coin imbedded in its lid and is engraved with roses representing the arms of the Roosevelt family; made by Gerrit Onckelbag, it was possibly part of the dowry of Catharina Hardenbroeck, who married Jacobus Roosevelt in 1713. The fat little teapot is the work of Jesse Kip, and was probably made between 1720 and 1722 for the Douw family. The caudle cup, also the work of Onckelbag. is engraved with the stars-and-windmill...
...Spring performance that rates a cherished page in our book was Harvard's upset conquest of the National Elephant Racing crown over tough Nevada University and Orange County State College. An impassioned rally on the steps of Widener sparked the team to victory. Harvard's elephant, Sonita, has recently finished filming a movie with Bobby Darin and is currently resting up for the coming racing season...
...stores operated by the Singer Manufacturing Co. In the 111 years since Singer's founding, its stores have offered customers nothing but sewing machines, sewing accessories, sewing lessons-and, latterly, vacuum cleaners. Now, however, in 864 of its retail outlets, Singer is offering something new - a 770-page mailorder catalogue that lists more than 15,000 items ranging from lingerie to storm windows...