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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seven years after Reno Hotel Operator Charles Mapes Jr., 41, first bought it for her. Bobo Rockefeller (born Jievute Paulekiute), 45, was finally wearing his engagement ring. Though candid about her third husband-to-be ("I'll tell you what he's like: he's a man, and that's a rare thing to find these days"), the coal miner's daughter, whose 1954 divorce from Winthrop Rockefeller brought her a $6,400,000 settlement, was coy about her wedding date. "I hope," she cooed, "we don't take as long to get married...
Into Alabama's political ring once again went the wool hat of James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, 53, a favorite to win the Democratic gubernatorial primary-and with it an unprecedented third term in a state where the Governor cannot succeed himself. After idling away his latest interregnum selling insurance in the hinterlands, 6-ft. 8-in. Folsom faced only one real stumbling block: a redneck notion that he is soft on segregation because he once sipped Scotch with Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell in the executive mansion...
Just beyond the spark chamber, shielded by many feet of concrete and steel, curves the half-mile ring of Brookhaven's 30-bev (30 billion electron volts) synchrotron, world's largest atom smasher. If the physicists' calculations are correct, when the synchrotron goes into operation one of its products will be a vast number of neutrinos, snippets of energy powerful enough to penetrate the shielding and slip into the chamber, where they may be spotted by means of spark trails. Scientists expect to decipher the trails and learn some of the deepest secrets of the universe...
...announced their own merger intention-and the Southern Pacific). The combined airline route would span 35,000 miles from Montreal to Mexico City, San Francisco to San Juan. Its 400 planes and 41,000 employees would serve 120 cities, handle some 35% of the nation's air traffic, ring up sales of $700 million (1961 total) v. $500 million for its nearest competitor, United Air Lines...
...back to the kind of medicine we had before, to that fear of illness, would be a nightmare." A lift operator, who has had nine operations, said: "I couldn't get on without it. Walk into a hospital and it doesn't cost you a penny. Ring up your doctor and he'll be there straight away...