Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...display was a new fighter that rose vertically from the field like a helicopter, for about 150 feet, then darted off in near-supersonic flight; in the West, only the French Mirage III-V and the British P.1127 have a comparable performance. The Russians also showed off a new swing-wing fighter, similar in design to the controversial U.S. F-111 (originally known as the TFX), that was designed to operate from rough, short runways. All the new fighter-bombers in the flyby were equipped with auxiliary engines for quick take-offs from short, unsurfaced fields...
...their recent congress passed a resolution demanding that the censors fully explain every deletion in the future. Earlier this month, delegates to the Czechoslovak Writers' Union Congress were so stormy in their demands that the Politburo member assigned as the writers' watchdog, Jiři Hendrych, rose and sputtered: "I have finally reached the end of my patience with you people." Later Hendrych stomped out when all the delegates endorsed Solzhenitsyn's stand and resolved that they would never again allow their work to serve a strictly "propagandistic function...
When Graham asked those who wished to make a "decision for Christ" to raise their hands, 500 timid hands rose. Billy, who hopes eventually to mount crusades in Poland and Czechoslovakia, was unperturbed. Said he: "Wherever the Gospel is preached, whether to one person, one thousand, or one million, there is success...
...York Stock Exchange, prices also climbed last week, propelled by the highest weekly volume on record: 57,386,715 shares. By two of the most broadly based barometers, Big Board stocks rose close to their alltime peaks. The N.Y.S.E. composite index of all common stock issues rose from $50.91 to $51.60, an 18% gain since December 30, only a mite below its May 8 summit of $51.93. Standard & Poor's 500-stock index moved up from $91.69 to $92.74, compared with its May 8 record of $94.58; it is up 18% for the year so far. The more familiar...
...lost money. Yet the price of 23 of the stocks has at least doubled this year-though some have subsequently slipped. Even with 100% margins, which exchange officials insist are generally effective in curbing speculative trading, some of the 26 issues continued to gain last week. Scurry Rainbow Oil rose $9.50 to $43 on rumors of an ore find and reports (later denied) of a tender offer for the company. National Equipment Rental gained $3.13 to $32.50, and LTV Electrosystems, a separately traded subsidiary of the Big Board's Ling-Temco-Vought, jumped...