Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seismologists had kept their ears to the ground in hopes of catching the faint tremor. High-flying U-2 reconnaissance jets, mounted with fallout-collecting air scoops, stood ready along the shores of Asia to fly at a moment's notice. Then, sure enough, another mushroom cloud rose slowly into the skies over Lop Nor in China's harsh Takla Makan Desert...
Doors from Cairo. The museum has four parts. Already 50,000 visitors have tunneled through the white-domed Shrine of the Book (TIME, April 30). Near by are five acres of contoured gardens, designed by Isamu Noguchi, containing sculptures given by Showman Billy Rose. Called the Billy Rose Art Garden (the word for sculpture-pesel-means a forbidden graven image), its terraces bank abstract works from Henry Moore to Tinguely, representational sculptures from Maillol to Rodin. The nudes not the abstractions forced two of Israel's chief rabbis to snub the inauguration...
...Book was bankrolled by the Gottesman Foundation, named for the late Pulp-and-Paper Tycoon Samuel Gottesman. The U.S. Government has contributed $830,000 and the Bronfman museum was a $2,000,000 birthday gift from the children of the 70-year-old Canadian liquor magnate. Billy Rose estimates that his garden cost $1,600,000. But no one seems to mind a bit that this whole art complex lies within gunshot of the barbed-wire border of Jordan. Only the Isaiah scroll in Kiesler's shrine can lower into the safety of a bombproof pit. Explained Rose...
Daily Blacklists. If it has not halted inflation altogether, Portaria 71 has at least helped. Last month's cost of living rose 3.8%-compared with 7.9% in March, 5.7% in February, 4.5% in January. Housewives in major cities have joined in the price fight, now publish daily blacklists of merchants who keep marking up. As a result, Campos is even predicting that in 1965 Brazil may be able to hold down its cost-of-living increase to a mere 32%-which would be the closest the country has come to price stability in five years...
Bundie shoved the piece of green and white paper back into his pocket. "The whole thing was too overpowering," he thought. "Two murders, a mysterious phone call, a man with a gun." Suddenly the Chief rose from his desk, snapping Biff out of his reverie...