Word: tically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bounty for world markets. Trains of wooden barges riding low in Bangkok's muddy Chao Phraya River carry rice, corn, copra, reams of incomparable Thai silk, jute-and illicit opium-to export. With the Thai annual growth rate of 7% a year, the baht (formerly called the tical and still worth a nickel), backed by gold and foreign-exchange reserves of nearly $650 million, is one of Asia's hardest currencies. The men who administer the Thai economy, and indeed the whole cadre of Thai civil service, are among the most competent
...FORCE. Strategic bombers and missiles are not, of course, being used. Of some 1,800 ultramodern U.S. tac tical fighters and fighter-bombers, only about 10% are actively engaged in Viet Nam - and none in the Dominican Republic. Thus the tactical strength of the Air Force has hardly been dented by the combat operations in which the U.S. has recently been engaged...
...revolutionize many industrial processes, Physicist Donald M. Mattox of Albuquerque's Sandia Corp. is faced with a persistent question. "People keep asking me why no one thought of it before," he says, and he has quit trying to find an answer. His best guess is that prac tical metallurgists knew too little theory to tackle the problem, while basic research scientists, who know enough theory, were unconcerned with such practical work...
Kirk, now just over 30, has spent much of his life pursuing a kind of mys tical lost chord. His quest began at 19, in his native Columbus, Ohio, where he literally dreamed of playing two horns at the same time and was entranced by what he heard in his mind's ear. After an antique dealer turned up the manzello, which approximates the soprano sax, and the stritch, which is close to an alto sax, Kirk began practicing what he had dreamed. Since then he has blown his horns all over Europe...