Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When John L. Lewis, 89, died last week at Washington, D C.'s Doctors Hospital, he had been president emeritus of the United Mine Workers since 1960. Remembering his years of active leadership, the miners appropriately honored him by walking out of the pits for a four-day period of mourning...
...Museum is planning to put together an exhibition of the work of a number of them in the autumn, although Associate Curator Robert Doty does not regard the show as a trend setter. "There's been a continuous stream of this kind of expressionistic art from the Romanesque period on ward," says he. "Look at Goya. Look at Bosch." For that matter, look at Chicago's Ivan Albright, California's Edward Kienholz, or New York's Lucas Samaras...
...Back Contamination, a group of scientists representing a variety of federal agencies, NASA has improved the complex quarantine procedures in Houston's $15.8 million Lunar Receiving Laboratory (TIME, Dec. 29, 1967), where the returned astronauts and their lunar samples will spend most of their three-week isolation period. The space agency has also taken makeshift measures to plug a major gap in the quarantine defenses: the post-splashdown exposure of the Apollo cabin atmosphere and the astronauts themselves in the earth's environment...
...cattle. This year the mechanism of the market has been snarled by increasing affluence. With disposable income up 6% from last year, Americans are indulging in their longstanding love of beef. In the first quarter of this year, 6% more steers have been marketed than in the equivalent period of 1968, yet consumer demand for red meat is rising even faster. At current rates, Americans this year will eat an average of 110 Ibs. of beef each, compared with...
...break down as a man, but it left him functioning as a writer. Or so Leon Edel asserts in this, the fourth volume of his projected five-book biography. James spent the next years writing himself out of shock-applying what Edel calls "imaginative self-therapy." Recounting a transitional period in James' creative life, Professor Edel has more recourse than necessary to Freud, but his book is otherwise as graceful and precise as the previous volumes...