Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cool hills surrounding Dehra Dun. He woke as usual at 6:30 a.m., but instead of performing his customary yoga exercises, complained of pains in his back. Within minutes, he collapsed in a coma from which he never recovered. At 2 p.m., he was dead. A Cabinet minister rose in Parliament and announced in a choked voice, "The Prime Minister is no more...
...Brazil's Ambassador to Washington until last December, when he quit in disgust at Goulart. As Minister of Economic Planning, Campos knows just how big a task he faces. In 31 months of Goulart, the value of the cruzeiro plummeted 83%, and the cost of living rose 340%. The confidence that had always helped Brazil grow in spite of itself disappeared-and so did many outside investors. Private foreign investment went from $85.1 million in 1960 to a trifling $4,500,000 last year...
...books always ended there. But there was more to come, dear reader. Back home in Shea Stadium a few days later, the Mets rose up and smote the fearsome San Francisco Giants, 4-2, before 55,062 wildly cheering fans. It was the biggest crowd of the year in either league. Now that kind of a house deserves an encore. And so next day, the Mighty Mets walloped the Giants once more, this time by a score...
...Largest individual owner: Showman Billy Rose, whose 80,000 shares, worth $11.2 million at the current price of $140 each, have brought him $288,000 in dividends during the past year...
...spotted another quarry: the shadow of Jupiter's satellite Ganymede, which is bigger than the earth's moon. They expected the shadow to be colder than the surrounding area, just as the moon's shadow casts coolness on the earth. To their surprise, the temperature reading rose more than 100º, from -230º F. to -117º F., as the photometer focused on the shadow. Incredulously, they repeated the experiment many times, always with the same result. The shadow of another satellite, Europa, proved to be equally warm...