Word: pea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...system-sun, planets and all-condensed out of a vast nebula of gas and dust. Graduate Student Craig M. Merrihue of the University of California at Berkeley is even convinced that some of the first objects that condensed are still around and can be identified. They are "chondrules"-round, pea-sized or even smaller globules of stony material. When they happened to be embedded in meteorites, the tiny pebbles were preserved by the cold and vacuum of interplanetary space and lasted for billions of years...
...July crises end abruptly. On August 2 the Gambezi U.N. delegation re-establishes native control. The next day a pea is found under Jackie Kennedy's mattress. It is removed and she recovers immediately. The following week the First Lady is featured on the covers of 1124 magazines in 65 languages. Scientific American runs a picture of the pea. Pundits announce that U.S. prestige has never been higher...
...another table. In Newport his batonlike index finger waves to the accompaniment of an avalanche of talk, which is usually about Maxim Karolik. In both places he is like a character out of an old Russian novel-a tall, exuberant figure with a penchant for astrakhan-collared coats or pea jackets with mink collars and cuffs. "In Newport,'' he says in a typical Karolik maxim, "I am prominent. In Boston, I am important...
Overcoming the Lag. Piraiki-Patraiki (pronounced Pea-rye-key Pat-rye-key) was founded in 1919 by two textile salesmen and puttered along nicely until World War II left its mills in ruins. Rebuilding did not begin until after Greece's civil war with the Communists ended...
Metrecal soup in three flavors (cream of tomato, clam chowder, and split pea with ham), each containing in one 8-oz. can a nutritionally complete 225-calorie meal. The soups will sell for about 39? each or $1.17 for a three-pack. > The two-way wrist radio (invented 15 years ago by "Brilliant" and "Diet Smith") has saved Dick Tracy from many a nasty comic-strip scrape. Cartoonist Chester Gould now plans to move the contraption off the drawing board and onto the wrists of Tracy fans everywhere. The radio comes in two pieces-a 9-volt power pack with...