Word: protectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protect them against enemies and intruders after death, Egypt's pharaohs were entombed with their treasures in cleverly concealed chambers deep with in their monumental pyramids. Most of these royal burial vaults have long since been discovered and looted, but some archaeologists suspect that others still lie undisturbed behind tons of lime stone and granite blocks. Egypt's pyramids may soon yield their remaining secrets. In a speech before the American Physical Society last week, University of California Physicist Luis Alvarez reported that his ingeniously conceived project to peer into the pyramids with cosmic rays is about...
Most important, the state sets maximum limits on wages and prices-through "guideposts" in the U.S., the "freeze" in Britain-in order to protect the corporate-planned economy from inflation. Galbraith found it amusing that such control, though a reality, is nonetheless still approached "with great caution and circumspection, somewhat in the manner of a Victorian spinster viewing an erotic statue...
...death with such fidelity that the Kennedys-who have not read it but are familiar with its contents-feel that it contains things far too personal to print. "That's all she has left-her personal life," says a member of the family. "She wants to protect that...
...protect it, Jackie Kennedy's attorneys requested and received a "show-cause" order from the New York State Supreme Court requiring Manchester, Harper & Row, which was to publish the book April 7, and Look magazine, which was to begin serializing it Jan. 10, to explain in a hearing next week why they should not be barred from bringing out the book. The charge: Manchester and his publishers had violated a "Memorandum of Understanding" and gone ahead with the book without an O.K. from the Kennedy family...
...with nobody else. When Jackie learned that Jim Bishop (The Day Lincoln Was Shot) was working on a book, she sent him a handwritten letter begging him "to please not go ahead with your intended book, The Day Kennedy Was Shot." Wrote Jackie: "I hired William Manchester to protect President Kennedy and the truth. If I decide the book should never be published, then Mr. Manchester will be reimbursed for his time. Or if I decide it should be known, I will then decide when it should be published." Said Bishop angrily: "She's trying to copyright the assassination...