Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read with great interest the startling discovery of the June graduates [June 13] that the world contains war, poverty, disease and hatred between races, and thus is not a fit receptacle for either them or Miss Mills' prospective babies. We are all much indebted to them for their shrewd observations and also for their forthright response to this situation -sulking, whining to their parents and destroying their universities...
...strikes and boycotts. The Pentagon has substantially increased its grape orders for mess-hall tables, a move that Chavez and his followers countered last week by preparing a lawsuit to prevent such purchases on the ground that grapes are the subject of a labor dispute. Some auto-bumper stickers read: NIXON EATS GRAPES. The growers' answering slogan: EAT CALIFORNIA GRAPES...
With launch minus-23 days, what better place was there to read the omens for the forthcoming Apollo 11 moon shot than the 3,000-year-old temple of the original Apollo? So off went Wernher von Broun, the man who directed the design of the rocket that will hurl American astronauts toward the moon this month, to visit the temple at Delphi. "Whatever Apollo's oracle said," reported Von Braun after the consultation, "I am convinced that we will succeed because no other space operation was ever so well prepared in advance." But what did the oracle predict...
Instead, the whole assembly read "On Love" from Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. The Epistle and Gospel were read by Jewish and Jesuit friends respectively...
...only chewing gum and pet food. In April, Japan eased restrictions on seven other items, but most were products as insignificant as boiled pig entrails. A veteran U.S. businessman in Japan explained with annoyance: "They said one day, 'Now you can make radios.' But when you read the fine print, it turned out that you couldn't bring in parts. You couldn't even make a crystal set. Then another round of liberalization came and, by God, now you can bring in parts-for a crystal...