Word: six
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the teeming pavements and traffic jams of Seoul, the South Korean capital, were surprised by the small number of people in the streets. The official explanation is that since the industrious North Koreans are exhorted to toil eight hours, study eight hours and sleep eight hours during the six-day work week, there is little time for idling...
...motives that somehow seem less than pure, ABC is devoting six costly hours of prime time to the debate of an absurdly narrow historical question: Did General Dwight D. Eisenhower have a wartime affair with his British aide Kay Summersby, or didn't he? According to Summersby's posthumous memoir, she and Ike stole a few kisses but struck out in two attempts at lovemaking. According to the general's heirs, Ike never dreamed of cheating on Mamie. Poor ABC does not know what to think. The mini-series Ike raises the question of its hero...
...time horse and a jockey whose skills have often been criticized. Owner Meyerhoff made an unspectacular bid of just $37,000 at the Keeneland Sales in the fall of 1977 for the sturdy son of Bold Bidder and grandson of Supersire Bold Ruler (his offspring have won six of the last nine Kentucky Derbies). Meyerhoff now spends $78,000 a year just for premiums on Spectacular Bid's $14 million insurance policy...
Last week the industry's critics got some powerful new ammunition. Fifteen of the nation's largest oil companies released first-quarter profit figures, and they showed an acceleration of the winter-long earnings surge. Included in the group were six of the so-called Seven Sisters,* the richest and most powerful oil companies in the world, which, more so than their smaller competitors, have huge investments in all four aspects of the business: drilling, transporting, refining and marketing...
...moves to the new, higher ceiling. In the last six months alone, the average U.S. price of gasoline has risen from 67¢ to 77¢ at the pump...