Word: rose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cover: Oil painting from life by Gerard de Rose. Background items include the spires of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow; a portrait of Nabokov's mother at 34, painted by Leon Bakst in 1910; tiles from a Russian version of Scrabble; a brown wood nymph butterfly, and on the novelist's shoulder, a small blue Lycaena argiolus...
...lives, though in some cases, it meant the return of white-haired old men to bands and friends they had left 30 years before. Some have since become internationally known: Billie and Dede Pierce, Sweet Emma the bell gal, the Kid Thomas band, and the Eureka Brass Band all rose from relative obscurity as a result of the Preservation Hall revival...
...TIME erred in reporting that Atlantic Richfield Company's earnings fell in the first quarter of 1969 [May 9]. To the contrary, Robert O. Anderson, chairman of Atlantic Richfield, announced at the annual meeting in Chicago on May 6 that net income for the quarter rose 7% to $58,763,000 from $54,957,000 in the like period...
...thousand years before Moses, a mighty city rose near what is now the city of Safad in northern Israel. Its name was Hazor (pronounced Hahtsor) and the Old Testament called it "head of all those kingdoms" of Canaan, the Israelites' Promised Land. Since archaeologists located the site of Hazor in 1875, they have uncovered 45-ft.-high walls, huge granaries, temples, citadels and cemeteries. But a basic question remained unanswered. Where were the waterworks capable of supporting such a metropolis in the arid Holy Land? The puzzle has now been solved by Archaeologist Yigael Yadin, a former chief...
...ignoring the normally bearish portents of monetary upheavals abroad and higher interest rates at home, Wall Street's customers seized on rumors of brightened peace prospects in Viet Nam to continue the stock market's best rally in more than a year. The Dow Jones industrial average rose four points to close at a year's high of 961.61. All told, the 38-point rise since late April was the Dow's best performance since 13 months ago-when peace talk was also...