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...have enjoyed since World War II. But back of all these factors is a democratic climate and relative political peace. Minor plots still pop up occasionally and are duly put down, but between them the administrations of Velasco Ibarra and his predecessor, Galo Plaza Lasso, add up to the longest period free of successful Thursday-afternoon revolutions since...
Three University astronomers will fly to Ceylon early next month to study the sun's corona during the longest solar eclipse in over 1200 years. Groups from throughout the United States and foreign countries will converge on the Island for the June 20 eclipse, including several which will conduct a major test of one of the late Albert Einstein's most famous predictions...
...eclipse will be visible only in a narrow strip of the earth's surface beginning in the Indian Ocean and extending east across Ceylon into the Pacific Ocean north of the Solomon Islands. The maximum totality will be seven minutes, seven and nine-tenths seconds, the longest since 717 A.D. Not until 2150 A.D. will another eclipse be that long, Sinton said...
...name of his Spanish model, explaining: "We called her 'La saucisse' [ the sausage]." Then, spotting a rare 1904 engraving, Le Repas Frugal, he said: "I didn't know they had this. It's worth a fortune." But what held Picasso's attention longest was a plaster Madonna from his boyhood home. Exclaimed Picasso: "We had this statue in Malaga. Actually, it's a statue of Venus which father bought in the flea market. He painted on the tears, draped the figure in plaster-soaked cloth. Now my niece has made a crown of flowers...
...Kohler, Wis. Out jumped scores of determined men who promptly began picketing the plant. Last week the same union pickets shuffled along the sidewalks at the plant gates, as the United Automobile Workers strike against Kohler of Kohler celebrated its first unhappy birthday. It is one of the longest-lasting major strikes...