Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John William Burgon, a 19th century British clergyman and minor poet, wrote a memorable line when he described ancient Petra as "a rose-red city half as old as time." Romantic, inaccessible, it lies in the midst of a vast desert in southern Jordan, and today, as always, its only approach is through a deep, narrow gorge called the Siq, which tradition says was created when Moses struck the rock with his rod. From 300 B.C. to A.D. 100, when Petra flourished as the caravan capital of the Nabataeans, the Siq made the city impregnable, since...
Prayers on the Ledge. Two young Frenchwomen, who were dawdling along behind the party, heard the roar of the oncoming flood and managed to scramble up the rock wall to a ledge 12 feet above the ground. "The water rose higher and higher," said one. "It gradually reached our feet, then our knees. We could not see the others, but we heard their cries. Soon we heard nothing but the thundering water. We clung to the ledge and prayed.'' Those two were saved, but when the flood subsided three hours later, the muddy floor of the gorge...
...British Governor-General's nose in the federation's plight, burly Federation Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky then rose to rail at Britain's "unparalleled treachery and deceit." Chin out, fists clenched, his voice trembling with anger, Welensky cried, "The interests of the white man and the ordinary moderate African in his thousands are being sacrificed in a long-drawn-out act of appeasement which puts Munich in the shade!" He charged that Britain intends the continent as a whole to "be handed over to racialism, whether the cost be a Congo or an Algiers...
Died. Mary Dowell Copeland, 48. Manhattan nightlife's big (6 ft. 3 in.), beautiful "Stutterin' Sam" of the '30s and '40s, a Texas-born show girl and one of Billy Rose's original "long-stemmed American Beauties," who quit at the height of her fame ("I've been a clothes horse for fi-i-i-ve years-how do I know I'm not an idi-i-i-ot?") to try her hand at Hollywood scriptwriting and finally became the happy wife of an advertising executive; of porphyria; in Manhattan...
...down in the free market even if the President had held his temper; stuck with a soft market, steelmen have been quietly discounting prices from 1% to 5% for much of the past year. Furthermore, steelmen take the chance of turning their customers increasingly to lower-priced imports, which rose by 1,000,000 tons last year, and to steel substitutes, which last year displaced 2,000,000 tons of steel. Wheeling wisely tried to avoid this peril by limiting its rise to products for which domestic demand is strong and import pressure is weak-sheets and strips widely used...