Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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There was no hullabaloo demanding their release, no publicity such as attended the case and trial of Francis Gary Powers -a well-paid civilian who admittedly flew his U-2 over Russia on a photomapping expedition for the Central Intelligence Agency. The men of the RB-47 were uniformed members of the Air Force, on regular duty and a legal mission...
...farthest fringes of the central Congo rain forest lives fat King Lukengu, monarch of the peace-loving Bakuba and their subject tribe, the Bakete. Far as he is from the fighting and feuding in the new republic's cities, King Lukengu has nonetheless been roughly handled by democracy. Reason: his 800 wives...
...Katanga capital of Elisabethville where they sat down with Katanga's President Moise Tshombe and issued a communiqué that for the first time promised a joint solution of the Congo's "internal problems," to be worked out next month at a round-table conference between the central government, Tshombe and other dissident provincial leaders...
Since then, Wielgus has gathered more than 100 authentic pieces from Africa, Central and South America, the Arctic and the South Seas. Their estimated ages range from 1000 B.C. to the 19th century. There are glaring ritual masks, delicate canoe figureheads, ornate fly whisks and chieftains' necklaces. A fetish from the Congo bristles with nails that were driven into it to transmit pain to a human foe. A tiny ivory Eskimo looks as if it might have been carved by Henry Moore; a clay Mexican bowl from the days before Christ bears the withered countenance of a fierce...
...flexibility of the telephone are the result of a $25 million 50-year research effort; it produced a completely new electronic switching system that works 1,000 times faster than current dial telephones. The heart of the system, housed in several neat rows of grey cabinets in Electronic Central office at Morris, is 12,000 tiny transistors that control or amplify electrical current pulsing through a myriad of miniaturized devices, including 105,000 diodes, 23,000 neon-filled tubes that glow orange as they connect one telephone with another in a few millionths of a second. Electronic "eyes and ears...