Word: exception
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...days skiing at Garmisch or Berchtesgaden, where a private room-and-bath is priced at $1.25 a night. Instruction and equipment for nearly any sport costs, as a military brochure puts it, "next to nothing." Sick? The 350-bed Wiesbaden U.S.A.F. hospital sends no bills to any patients-except for maternity care, which costs...
Armed with his rare education, Abubakar returned to the windswept Bauchi Plateau and settled down on the staff of a Boys Middle School; he was a born teacher, and might have spent his life there except for a chance remark by a friend, who said that no northern Nigerian had ever passed the examination for a Senior Teacher's Certificate. Piqued by this reflection on northern intelligence, Abubakar took the exam and, to the astonishment of southern colleagues, passed it with ease. Impressed, London University's Institute of Education granted him a scholarship...
...pattern gave a valuable overall view of global weather. Last week the U.S. launched Tiros II, to improve on the work of its predecessor. The 280-lb., drum-shaped satellite, spangled with 9,260 solar cells, went into a nearly circular orbit about 400 miles above the earth. All except one of its instruments worked fine; only the wide-angle TV camera for photographing large-scale cloud cover was out of kilter...
...Rivers, except for the big navigable ones, are a little out of date. So dam builders in the Western states are turning them into strings of placid lakes, stocked with fish, vacationers and beer cans. Only unregenerate wildlife cranks doubt that progress is served in the interests of flood control, irrigation, electrification and the outboard motor industry. Author John Graves is no crank, and from the evidence of his book, he is something of a fatalist. When he heard that a section of the Brazos River valley in the west Texas scrub country, where he grew up, was soon...
...Except for two frightening threats with a minute to go, Bland had no problems securing his shut-out. A careless Bowdoin shot saved one goal for Bland and a beautiful glove catch held out the other...