Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back to England and the 17th century, when penalties were harsh. In an early Maryland version of the law, first offenders had a hole bored through their tongues with a hot iron, second-timers had a "B" branded into their foreheads and anyone foolhardy enough to be caught the third time suffered death without benefit of clergy. The Maryland legislature had an opportunity to do away with the current, milder version as recently as 1953, when it repealed a companion section on cursing (penalty: 25? for the first word, 50? for every word thereafter). But the lawmakers left the blasphemy...
Hands to the Sun. Yadin's earlier Hazor excavations, between 1955 and 1958, uncovered most of the known facts about the 22 successive cities that were built on the site from the third millennium until 200 B.C. Egyptians, Israelites, Aramaeans, Assyrians, Babylonians and Persians in turn laid siege to the city and built Hazor's fortifications anew. On various levels of the tell (an archaeological mound), Yadin has unearthed the remains of Solomon's mighty city gates, three separate Canaanite temples, basalt slabs engraved with hands praying to the sun, and an Israelite temple similar to Solomon...
...economy to something close to pre-Viet Nam conditions. Were a cease-fire to begin this July and troop withdrawal in January, Schultze figures that the current $79 billion Pentagon budget could decline by $7 billion in 1970 and by $13 billion in 1971. Since about one-third of the demobilized G.I.s would be going back to school, the labor force would have to absorb only some 600,000 new members-not enough to pose serious employment problems...
...portable parking lots can be built in half as much time and for one-third to one-half as much money as conventional poured-concrete structures. Convenient as they are, they have one drawback. Their appearance- which is most charitably described as functional-does not do much to improve the esthetics of a neighborhood. But what parking lot does...
Nordek will introduce a third grouping into the European economic picture. With a population of 21 million and a combined gross national product of $50 billion, the four countries already constitute the European Common Market's second largest customer after the U.S. Under Nordek, they will remain in the seven-member European Free Trade Association,* through which four-fifths of intra-Scandinavian trade currently passes duty-free. They plan to establish a customs union that will free all trade among Nordic countries and enact common external tariffs against non-EFTA members. Most important, they will work toward closer economic...