Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abroad as they have in the past year. Last summer Israel smashed the Arabs, Red China exploded its first H-bomb, Johnson met Kosygin in New Jersey, the Bolivians killed Che Guevara, the Nigerian civil war began destroying Black Africa's most promising nation, and Negro rioters ran wild in Detroit and Newark...
Died. Paul Egan, 69, mayor of Aurora, Ill., from 1953 to 1961, whose antics drew national attention to the city of lights; of cancer; in Aurora. "When I first ran for mayor," said Egan, "they tried to prove I was crazy." He did little to prove otherwise, fired Aurora's entire police force (they refused to quit), called Khrushchev to enlist Red cops (no answer), and once demanded federal troops to put down an insurrection in the city council...
...studied them under a binocular microscope and decided that it was tiny spikes at the base of their delicate, fernlike antennae that reacted to strong light. To check his theory, he blacked out the moths' eyes, painted each antenna black, except for the tips of the spikes, and ran minuscule wires into the main antennal nerves. Then he began subjecting them to light of varying intensity...
...landed with a shipment of condensed food for the secessionist state's starving population. When soldiers guarding the airstrip saw its cargo, they burst unashamedly into tears. On a country road a few miles away, relief workers held out bits of food to a group of hungry children. They ran, not knowing what to do with it. "We are going to have to teach a generation of children how to eat again," said a Canadian nurse. In the border town of Ikot Ekpene, the emaciated bodies of a brother and sister lay side by side in a rough cradle. Their...
Dwindling Pressures. By its 5-0 vote to cut the discount rate, the Reserve Board sided with Administration economists who contend that inflationary pressures in the economy are dwindling because of the 10% income-tax surcharge enacted in late June. Unless the credit brakes were eased, so their argument ran, the combination of both fiscal and monetary restraint could slow the economy too much and create the risk of a mini-recession. To offset such economic drags as a sharp drop in steel buying, a leveling off in defense outlays and the anticipated decline in consumer spending, the Administration counts...