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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief source of income, and badly damaged the economy. Rebellious students who had seized the University of Montevideo and held it for four days finally agreed to leave peacefully. And Uruguay's third general strike in a month ended without Pacheco Areco's having had to use emergency measures. The President still needs, however, all the help he can get: he has set out to tighten the belt of a country that is used to wearing it very loose...
...speed, the machine records only five electrical stimuli per heartbeat, as against the standard machine's 13. These five are sufficient for basic screening. Since what is adjudged normal in an ECG varies with the subject's age, early models of the analyzer were set for use on only the age bracket of the volunteers being tested. Later models may be programmed for several age levels, which the technician can select by a simple dial...
Eventually, "getting beyond the plastic aspects" came to mean abjuring the use of paint on canvas altogether. Proclaiming that it was time "to wring the neck of painting," Miró in the early '30s embarked on the production of oddly haunting "poetic objects," which were meant to suggest the improbable juxtaposition of objects that occurs in dreams. Many of his sculptures remind observers of the combines produced by Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg in the 1950s...
...emerges through fissures in the ground called fumaroles (from the Latin word fumariolum; meaning smokehole), and the simplest way to prospect for this geothermal energy is to look for such vaporous leaks in the earth's crust. But in areas where the energy remains trapped underground, geologists must use more sophisticated techniques. One method employs infra-red aerial photography. Since the infra-red film is sensitive to heat, geothermal areas are likely to show up lighter in the picture. Another method measures the earth's electrical conductivity, which increases with the presence of subsurface hot water...
...America, who are less concerned with theological niceties than with committing the church to support of the poor and the underprivileged. There were 32 delegates from developing nations, for example, on the 105-man committee that drafted the document on peace and international justice, which not only condemned the use of nuclear weapons in war but also gave support to the idea of selective pacifism. Traditionally, Christian moral theology has accepted conscientious objection only on the all-or-nothing basis of opposition to all warfare. Reflecting a new consensus of pacifists, both religious and secular, the council's resolution...