Word: virginity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...list of good works is dizzying: the 200-in. Mount Palomar telescope, probing the lightyears; Nobel Prizewinner Niels Bohr's atomic research projects in Copenhagen; vast national parks-Wyoming's Jackson Hole, the Virgin Islands National Park, Maine's Acadia National Park; Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art; the site of the United Nations; the restored Reims Cathedral; and the rebuilt Stoa of Attalus in Athens. Colonial Williamsburg rose from the American past, and Rockefeller Center pointed to the American future (and changed the New York skyline). Schools, from Louvain to Tokyo and from Harvard...
...browed, dynamic Leonid Brezhnev, 53. Like Kozlov and Kosygin, Brezhnev belongs to the new generation of Soviet men, reared among machines rather than revolution, trained in industry, agriculture and politics. He got his start working under Khrushchev in the Ukraine, moved to Kazakhstan to launch Khrushchev's pet "virgin lands" scheme, and only this year made his first trip beyond the Iron Curtain to speak at a Finnish Communist Party Congress. Since he still is a top Party Secretary, Brezhnev may fill the hitherto largely ceremonial office of President with greater power and authority...
...even known. Many scholars doubted that it was originally intended for the out-of-the-way chapel at all. Yet the altarpiece did exactly fit the altar table, and at certain times the afternoon sun would stream through the western rose window to light up the face of the Virgin Mary. It was to Mary that the linden triptych was dedicated...
With three new hotels already built in his mind, the world's No. 1 innkeeper, Conrad Hilton, arrived in Brazil, seemed in high good humor over his venture into what is, for his enterprises, virgin territory. On his Brazilian expedition, Hilton broke ground for hotels in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, made plans for construction of another in São Paulo. Total cost: about $21 million. A Brazilian corporation, partly financed by British interests, will build the hotels for operation by Hilton under his customary leaseback terms: a third of net profits will go to Hilton Hotels International...
...once, we happy followers of skindiving are not depicted as a slightly mad race apart from the rest of mankind, but as we like to think of ourselves: sober and sensible types enjoying the one last bit of virgin wilderness left in this world. Fortunately, the last is most of the world...