Word: taurus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heat-proof Bos. Indian cattle, descended from the tropical Bos indicus instead of from the European Bos taurus, are better cooled. Their loose, hanging skins give them more cooling surface. Their hides are thick, and their hair is an efficient insulator...
...personality front, Harry Truman (Taurus) seemed in for a rise in prestige and a decline in health, Winston Churchill (Sagittarius) for a "permanent change of residence," the C.I.O.'s Phil Murray (Gemini) for "a churning year," Crooner Frank Sinatra (Sagittarius) for "increased power." Things were not going so well-astrology-wise-with Generalissimo Stalin (Sagittarius). The current opposition of Uranus to the Sun in Stalin's chart pointed inexorably toward the end of his trail, certainly...
...Cairo-bound Taurus Express rocked and clattered through the harsh, moonlit mountains of southern Turkey. In a latched compartment of the wagons-lits rode an elderly intriguer, Prince Barbu Stirbey of Rumania, and his elegant daughter, Princess Elise, wife of a British major. When control officers at the Levantine frontier saw the special British laissez-passer, they moved on quickly to the next compartment. Chained to Prince Stirbey's wrist as he slept that night was a small, red dispatch case containing, so it was said, Rumania's terms for quitting...
Astronomer Bart Jan Bok was born under Taurus and thinks nothing of it. But he is disturbed by the fast-growing number of U. S. citizens who look to Taurus, Gemini, Mercury and Venus, for solace and advice. This week he turned from his work at the Harvard Astronomical Observatory to report for the American Association of Scientific Workers on the status of astrology in the U. S. today. Astronomers generally hold it beneath their dignity to refute astrologers. But the time has come, Bok thinks, for scientists to attack the revival of a pernicious superstition...