Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Juan José Castro, 73, Argentina's foremost conductor-composer, who exiled himself shortly after Dictator Juan Perón came to power in 1946, toured the world's concert halls for nine years before returning home; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Buenos Aires. During his long exile, Castro led orchestras from Melbourne to Belgrade, brought his lean, thoroughly modern style to numerous Latin-flavored works, most notably the opera Proserpina and the Stranger, which premiered to a tumultuous ovation at Milan's La Scala...
...Tigers' star righthander has started 36 games, finished 25, struck out 243 batters and allowed just 64 earned runs, or an average of 1.95 per nine-inning game. Last week, against the Minnesota Twins, he scattered nine hits, struck out twelve, and coasted to an 8-3 victory?his 28th of the year against only five losses. With perhaps five starts still ahead of him, McLain has already surpassed the best single-season performances of Carl Hubbell, Bob Feller, Warren Spahn, Whitey Ford and Sandy Koufax. No one has approached his performances in 16 years, and just two more victories...
...Ferris wheel: cars are parked on gondola-like platforms that are rotated up and around by a single attendant. When a driver calls for his car, the attendant pushes a console button and the wheel brings platform and car down to ground level. Costing about $4,000 per space, the system is economical at its usual 26-30 car capacity, and some 52-car facilities have been built...
Underground Future. In Manhattan, another type of automated garage, aptly called Speed-Park, is in operation. Invented by Rumanian-born Engineer Mihai Alimanestianu and built by Otis Elevator, it is designed to make the most of parking-space profits, which range from $500 to $2,000 a year per car space, depending on location. Speed-Park uses a computer-controlled moving elevator platform to whisk a car to one of eight levels, where hydraulic machinery shovels the auto into an empty stall. Total time for the cycle: 30 seconds. The system is by no means inexpensive; a one-elevator setup...
Dublin's Dr. Raymond G. Cross noted that the incidence of anencephaly and of a comparable abnormality, spina bifida (failure of the spinal column to close), varied with religion. Records of 700 cases of these abnormalities showed that the rate was 2.8 per 1,000 births among Catholics, 2 per 1,000 among Protestants, and only .7 per 1,000 among Jews...