Word: remains
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...nthe future, reserve books will circulate for three-hour periods during the day. Overnight use of reserve books will remain on the present basis...
Since her nuclear refueling cycle is measured in years and not miles, she can outlast a single crew, thus becomes the first ship of the line to be manned by alternate crews, the "Blue" and the "Gold." (Each will remain on station for three months while the other is on shore leave or in training.) An electrolytic generator will manufacture the ship's oxygen supply, and a diagnostic computer will check out every missile and every major subsystem to provide instant intelligence about malfunctioning equipment...
...earth, is still virgin soil. In Ethiopia alone, more than 180 million of the world's most fertile acres lie fallow. Even in crowded Asia, great tracts of potentially arable land, such as the Philippine island of Mindanao and the central highlands of South Viet Nam, remain uncultivated. Meanwhile, the U.S., surfeited with food, has put 22.5 million acres of once productive land into its soil bank...
...Ingestre Hall and meetings in the White Room and the Bird Room. Last week, after one of the most costly ($56,000) divorce cases in British history, Justice Sir Charles Collingwood ruled that the countess had indeed been unfaithful-but that she and the earl would have to remain man and wife, though their courtroom behavior exhibited a deep-seated dislike of each other...
Kricke's method is to sculpt with lines, which are his tubes. As he composes them, the tubes do not seem to outline shapes; they remain lines, as in handwriting or neon. "Never, never," Kricke vows, "will I use lines as a limiting element!" The eye follows Kricke's lines as if they were intertwining jets of water, now fast, now slow, and changing with each new viewpoint, or starting place. The effect on the viewer can be as exhilarating as that of negotiating a parkway cloverleaf at maximum speed, or of flashing through a night-blazing city...