Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Startling as a shout, the silent casbah sprang to life last week, and its outburst basically altered the nature and changed the pace of the long-drawn-out agony known by the bleak title of "the Algerian problem...
...Exile. Benito Mussolini made Haile Selassie a world figure, known from the League of Nations to Tin Pan Alley. As his barefoot troops fell back before the 1935-36 Italian invasion, the Emperor trekked to Geneva to ask help from the League of Nations. A tiny (he is only 5 ft. 4 in. tall) but imperious figure, Haile Selassie seemed gallant and curiously impressive even in defeat. When the League declined to save his country for him, he settled down in Britain, where he checked his crown in a bank vault. Four years later, as the British army mounted...
...picture of the "edge" of the known universe: two apparently colliding galaxies 6 billion light-years away. The most distant impression ever received by man revealed that the giant clusters of galaxies, at least as large as our own Milky Way, were racing away from the earth at 90,000 miles per second, about half the speed of light...
...suggests Manhattan Psychologist Victor Goertzel, president of the National Association for Gifted Children. By studying the lives of 350 well-known people, Goertzel, 46, is trying to discover what kind of families breed the species. From the first 77 cases-he is methodically working through the alphabet-Psychologist Goertzel reports, in The Gifted Child Quarterly, that...
...luxury but to provide standards that his often newly rich customers can rely on. Operating a store that is in many ways comparable to the best in Manhattan, he has effectively imposed Eastern and Continental taste on his customers. Though ready to indulge rich whims, he has been known to kill a good sale if he thinks a purchase is not suitable, e.g., a mink coat for a college freshman. As a result, Neiman-Marcus is a respected name in stylish circles around the world. In the past decade Neiman-Marcus' sales have nearly doubled, will hit $41 million...