Word: unlocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mirror. Two flickering candles. And Sirhan Sirhan. Alone in his cramped room, day after day, hour after silent hour, Sirhan studied Sirhan. Mail order courses in Rosicrucian mysticism had given him a new creed. They told the disturbed Christian Arab that he could unlock from the mirror image of Sirhan Sirhan the inner knowledge, happiness and power he craved...
...archetype of a state that is impatient to tap its latent wealth. There is so much of Alaska for so few Alaskans that they have never seemed to care very much whether some of the state's 586,400 sq. mi. are despoiled in the rush to unlock its treasure chest of oil, metals, timber and fish. In that respect, Hickel, who had acquired more than $14 million in housing, hotels and natural-gas holdings before his election in 1966, is not notably different in outlook from most of his fellow Alaskans...
Cure: Love. By happenstance, Chuck discovers "a way to be thought better of. The key to his modest pad may unlock an executive suite for him. Commuting senior executives with one night of illicit in-town love on their agendas barter promises of future advancement for the use of his apartment. One night Chuck finds the girl (Jill O'Hara) he worships in the bed he rarely makes. She has taken an overdose of sleeping pills after discovering the perfidy of the company Don Juan. Cure: the love of a good -well, fairly good...
...Portugal has set out to unlock that interior. It plans to build at Kebrabasa a 510-ft.-high, 1,000-ft-wide dam that by 1974 will generate 12 billion kw-h of electricity per year, 2 billion more than Egypt's Aswan High Dam. Eventually, the dam will become a sort of common-market grid for white-dominated southern Africa. Most of the power will travel 800-mile-long lines to Pretoria and feed South Africa's industry, but Mozambique's other neighbors, Rhodesia and probably Malawi, will get their share...
...strange creature of the deep was the Reynolds Metals Co.'s Aluminaut, a man-made sea monster that is helping scientists to unlock the secrets of the sea. On its mission off Florida, it discovered a 100-mile by 150-mile area of -'pavement" apparently swept clean by Gulf Stream currents. Analysis of the 600 Ibs. of ore that Aluminaut brought to the surface indicated that most of the pavement below consisted of a good grade of manganese oxide that might some day be mined commercially...