Word: rite
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...republic whose Christian Arabs dominate business life and whose Christian President Camille Chamoun, a Roman Catholic of the Maronite rite, has accepted the Eisenhower Doctrine, Moslems have become increasingly dominated by a persecution complex. Going to Damascus has become a deliberate act of defiance against the government of Chamoun and his 75-year-old, waterpipe-smoking Premier, Sami Solh. "O Chamoun, Lebanon must join the Arab Union!" chanted thousands of Lebanese last week in Damascus, as Nasser beamed down from his balcony. Replied Nasser: "As I see my brothers from sister Lebanon standing side by side with their brothers from...
This kind of chatter is everyday lingo to thousands of dedicated missilemen who run the unique Spaceport, U.S.A., at Cape Canaveral, Fla. For a tour beyond the guarded gates of missileland, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Rite of Space...
THIS is the rite of space that is performed day and night at the Air Force Missile Test Center at Cape Canaveral, the point from which the first U.S. man-possibly the first man in the world -will journey to the moon and beyond. Cape Canaveral is the U.S. Spaceport of the Future, and today it is in full-dress rehearsal-a monumental, $370 million stage where, day and night, civilian and military scientists and technicians work with freshly blueprinted tools over the incredibly complex mechanisms of space travel. With each launching of an Atlas, Jupiter or Thor-though flames...
When they rummage through clues to their past, future anthropologists may find no more intriguing tribal customs than those practiced at the 82nd Westminster Kennel Club dog show, the two-day rite that packed Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week with 2,500 dogs and 40,000 humans...
...rite, which has never before been exposed to eyes cushioned by the inhibitions of Western society, has been known to devastate the mentalities of fully mature men; thus, just in case, there will be no CRIME tomorrow...