Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Meeker in 1930, "the American people can least afford to condemn speculation. The discovery of America was made possible by a loan based on the collateral of Queen Isabella's crown jewels, and at interest beside which even call-loan interest rates look coy and bashful. Financing an unknown foreigner to sail the unknown deep in three cockleshell boats in the hope of discovering a mythical Zipangu cannot, by the widest exercise of language, be called 'a conservative investment...
...South. Most of Britain's press responded with angry bewilderment. "Does Greene really believe that he would be allowed to publish what he wanted in Russia, Cuba or North Viet Nam?" wondered the Daily Mail. "His career and fortune are dependent on exactly that personal freedom which is unknown in Moscow, Havana and Hanoi, and for the minute exercise of which Sinyavsky and Daniel were jailed...
...barely bulgy, the next she seemed six months along, and within a week she was 14 months pregnant. By this time even the most motherly fan had guessed that Mia's baby was really Rosemary's Baby, and that the father was an unknown pillow stuffer in Paramount's wardrobe department...
James Thompson, the Thailand silk millionaire who has been missing since March; of a brutal beating inflicted by an unknown assailant in the bedroom of her mansion 15 miles west of Wilmington, Del. Her death was as mysterious as her brother's disappearance: there was no sign of forced entry, and none of her valuables was missing...
...professor of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong, believes it is "the most valuable find in the history of Chinese archaeology." His reasons: the Ch'u Silk Manuscript is the earliest and largest of its kind, and the larger the manuscript the easier it is to decipher unknown characters in context with known characters. In addition, says Dr. Jao, "it is a very important astrological and astronomical record. It confirms and adds to many legendary records of the ancient Chinese classics, and it reveals the relationship of God and man in ancient China...