Word: zeroes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Better Informed Sir: Apparently New York's Representative Charles E. Goodell needs to become better informed on area redevelopment before contradicting President Kennedy's statement that 400,000 persons are now receiving retraining [Aug. 24]. According to Representative Goodell, "the number being retrained is exactly zero." According to an official report of the State of West Virginia, there were, as of June 30, 1,127 persons being retrained in 13 counties of this state under the area redevelopment program...
...clutch of musicals caters to the best and worst of tastes. The astringent wit of Abe Burrows fuses How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and the impish energies of Robert Morse provide the explosive for an evening of delight. Multi-aptituded Zero Mostel brings his masterly clowning to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, an uproarious burlesquerie, lewdly adapted from some plays of Plautus. Also still in season: Camelot, Carnival and (closing Sept. 1) the venerable My Fair Lady...
...clutch of musicals caters to the best and worst of tastes. The astringent wit of Abe Burrows fuses How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and the impish energies of Robert Morse provide the explosive for an evening of great delight. Multi-aptituded Zero Mostel brings his masterly clowning to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, an uproarious burlesquerie, lewdly adapted from some plays of Plautus. And there is still plenty of verve and joy left in the grande dame of Broadway musicals, My Fair Lady...
...enthusiasts make the trip sound as simple as a Sunday picnic, but no one actually believes that the voyage will be safe or easy. All sorts of unexpected obstacles may force changes of plan. No one knows, for instance, whether human bodies can stand a full week exposed to zero gravity. If they cannot, some sort of substitute gravity will have to be supplied by spinning the spacecraft−a stunt that will call for radically new apparatus. Another unknown is the lunar surface; no one is sure at present just how hostile it is. Astronomers point out that...
...While the ministers argued over the budget (two even came to blows), the financial crisis deepened, partly as a result of Amini's realistic reforms. The Treasury lost a major source of revenue after a ban on foreign luxury goods reduced import duties to almost zero; the punctured inflationary balloon resulted in a recession...