Word: spells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba, the intransigent stand of the French can spell political extinction. At the funeral of Tunisians killed in the fighting, he solemnly pledged, over the very bodies of the dead, that he would get the French out of Bizerte. In two hour-long talks with Hammarskjold, Bourguiba explained that he had to make good his promise or go under...
...prodigious rate. Last week Yankee Mickey Mantle blasted a 450-ft. inside-the-park four-bagger off Yankee Stadium's centerfield wall. Teammate Roger Maris, whose 28 home runs have turned his right ear into a more tempting target than the strike zone, ran into a dry spell, but San Francisco's Willie Mays took up the slack, collected three homers in one game. Even the seventh-place Chicago Cubs got into the act, hitting 17 in six games. Batters poled 112 home runs in six days, boosted big league totals...
...young for kindergarten and too old for alphabet blocks. Since she was eleven months old. Florence has been able to recite the alphabet. She can also tick off, alphabetically, in singsong style, the 50 states, the countries of Latin America, the planets and their satellites. She can spell Mississippi and hippopotamus. A child of the space age. Florence warns that an astronaut's hazards include "cosmic rays, micrometeorites, ultraviolet rays and infra-red emissions.'' Last week Florence earned what for her age is the Nobel Prize for Literature: her own library card...
...which many scientists are bitterly partisan, drive him to stubborn extremes. In judging nuclear test ban treaties, he recognizes the difficulty of detecting clandestine tests, but he still hopes that the nuclear nations can come to agreement before it is too late. Far more than the award citation could spell out, Hans Bethe continues to contribute "to the security...
Newsday gave the presidential message a wary editorial greeting ("We are pleased . . . but he must first spell out our responsibilities"). And Alicia insisted on the last word. "His answer was too general," she said. "He has to do more than ask." Then she sat back to see if her pen pal had more...