Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House. McCormack had to comply. The count ate up half an hour. It was hardly finished when Iowa Republican H. R. Gross asked for another. And so it went all afternoon and into the night. Majority Leader Carl Albert accused the opposition of filibustering. Tempers frazzled, blood pressures rose, and the House stayed dead center until McCormack at last agreed to ask for only four bills. When the session ended at 12:31 a.m., the House had nothing more to show for its time than 1) four resolutions that simply allowed legislation to come to the floor...
...peak of ecstasy in the Kingdom of Peace came in 1949, when the evangelist made public his marriage to Edna Rose Ritchings, the comely 21-year-old daughter of a white Vancouver florist, his "Spotless Virgin Bride." The original Mother Divine, a Negro, had died six years earlier; her spirit, Father Divine explained, had passed into Rose's shapely form...
High in the Swiss Alps, near the little village of Saas-Almagell, engineers and workmen have labored for five years on the Mattmark dam. To visitors, the site of the work camp looked dangerous, for above it rose a sheer mountain wall, topped by the icy lip of the six-mile-long Allalin glacier. But the workmen on the dam were assured it was by no means as menacing as it looked...
...Gemini 4. For one reason, the Gemini 5 astronauts were able to get six or seven hours of sleep daily after the first few crucial days. When they slept in orbit, their heartbeats dropped to the high 30s. As they maneuvered their spacecraft and performed experiments, the beats rose to the 60s and 70s, which is about normal for them on earth. During the critical retro-fire sequence before splashdown, their hearts raced to the highest of the eight days-180. Still, no ill effects...
...chairman and chief executive officer, and George E. Stoll, 58, president and chief operating officer. Both longtime up-through-the-ranks employees, they have tightened cost controls, informed division heads that they will use Bendix' incentive bonus program to reward good producers and punish poor ones. Result: earnings rose 22% in the April-June period, are up 10% overall so far this year...