Word: turn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constitution strips him of his two most important prerogatives-the power to hire and fire Premiers and to command the armed forces. In the future, Greece's King will be obliged to name as Premier whoever is chief of the leading party in Parliament. The Premier, in turn, will become a sort of super-President who will run the armed forces and just about everything else...
...umpires are giving the pitchers all the breaks," grouses Henry Aaron. Other batsmen blame their anemic averages on the hardships of coast-to-coast travel, the lengthened big-league schedule, the visual vicissitudes of night baseball, the spacious new ballparks that turn extra-base blasts into long outs, and the bushel-basket-sized gloves used by fielders today. Factors all, but the commanding factor still is a quantum improvement in pitching quality...
...future, Clarke plans to concentrate on science fiction. But he has one unfulfilled goal: a flight of fact. Although he believes regularly scheduled trips to the moon will not begin until after the turn of the century, he hopes to be included on one of the early flights, "some time...
...Tarzan of the title is Baron Wolfgang von Hoppe (Rudolf Hruŝínsky), whose parents take him to the African jungle around the turn of the century to escape the sinks of civilization. Vati and Mutti promptly perish, of course, and little Wolfgang grows up among the apes. Captured by hunters some time in the '30s, he returns to the family Schloss, where the estate is being run by his rascally cousin Heinrich (Martin Ružek). Heinrich hires an English governess called Regina (Jana Štěpaňková) to give the ape-baron enough...
Earn or Burn. Sadly, ghetto joblessness is rising at a time when summer job programs, launched with much public hoopla, are falling far short of their marks. Overall, the Administration had hoped that a concerted federal, state and private effort could turn up 1.5 million jobs for ghetto youths this summer. So far, federal agencies have found jobs for 646,000, more than last summer's 571,000 but still not enough. The National Alliance of Businessmen, a 60-company group headed by Henry Ford II, aims to find jobs for 200,000, has so far placed only...