Word: six
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the audience, aged six to eleven, cannot remember a time when satellites were not shuttling through space. Not visions of sugar plums dance in their heads but Darth Vader's star fighters. "It was cool," says a nine-year-old Chinese girl, adding: "They said it was all a scientific thing." A small black boy asks, "Hey man, who do you think runs this place...
...coming together would likely be regarded as a portent of great events. Even here, though, the returns of science seem to be contradictory. Chinese and Korean astronomers noted that an extremely brilliant 70-day stellar flare-up was visible in the Eastern Hemisphere around 5 B.C., one of only six recorded in our galaxy. Could this have been the Wise Men's star...
...have been in a desperate attempt to gain international support against such a Vietnamese assault that Cambodia last week embarked on its oddest scheme yet to end its self-imposed isolation: a twice-weekly six-hour tourist excursion from Bangkok to the exquisite Cambodian temple complex of Angkor Wat, 140 miles northwest of Phnom-Penh. The round trip, arranged in Bangkok by former Thai Foreign Minister Chatichai Choonhavan, costs an unproletarian $225. On the inaugural flight last week was TIME's Hong Kong correspondent, David DeVoss, who reported that "at first security was so tight, visitors spent most...
Despite the athletic paraphernalia, the club's most prized asset may be its library, a 25,000-volume, six-room affair with a large rare-book collection and the largest collection of Harvardiana outside of Cambridge...
Lounsbury D. Bates, or "Biff" to his friends, presides over the growing collection with almost paternal affection. Bates, a 1928 graduate of the Law School, took over the library six years ago after he retired from private legal practice. A member of the club since the '30s, he is an unofficial historian, having watched the club change over his more than 40 years of affiliation...