Word: type
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French hope to achieve in the new tests is a smaller, powerful warhead to ride atop the intermediate-range missile for which silos are already being dug in France's Haute-Provence. The French timetable calls for the missiles to be ready by 1969, followed by Polaris-type submarines in the early 1970s...
...away his waiting time in one of the luxurious private lounges that many airlines maintain as part of their VIP "clubs." This becomes even more annoying as the plebeian passenger thinks it all over and realizes that he has paid every penny as much for the flight as the type who is getting VIP favors...
...prepared for printing. They formed the first nine books of a translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Books 10 through 15, unillustrated, were given to Cambridge University by Diarist Samuel Pepys 278 years ago. Put together by William Caxton, the 15th century Englishman who first set English in movable type, the first half of the Ovid manuscript brought a record auction price of $252,000 at Sotheby's last week from Lew Feldman, a rare-book dealer in New York, who has recently picked up such prizes as T. S. Eliot's manuscript of The Waste Land. Says...
They say in the book trade that Frances Parkinson Keyes learned to type on the cash register. This is hard to refute. Mrs. Keyes (rhymes with eyes) is a very nice old lady of 81 who sells all the books she can write. Of the 47 that she has published since 1919, not counting this one, nearly half have been bestsellers. This one is already bobbing, a buoyant cork, on the bestseller lists...
...architecture has recourse to Moorish arches of the typical multifoil horseshoe type. In keeping with the mellow glow that permeates the script, Armstrong has used light buff walls with abstract Turkish surface decoration--a gold for Duke Orsino's palace, and in pink and blue for Lady Olivia's house...