Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jumper Noyes faces a tough problem that effects the entire squad to some extent: there's no place for him to practice. Aside from calisthenics and running, Noyes' training is confined to weekends and vacations. In view of this handicap, his 21st place finish out of 40 entrants at Dartmouth is considered unbelievably good...
...committee. "It is fundamentally illogical and wasteful to fit our new first-line warships with power plants that are, perhaps, already obsolete. If this carrier, with a life expectancy of up to 30 years, is built with conventional power, it will reduce its capabilities from now until the 21st century. More tragically, such a decision means that the Navy may be committed to a future of planned obsolescence with grave implications for the national security...
...Colombo provides the West with a link of sorts to almost all of non-Communist Asia. The recipients need the money, no matter how neutral they would like to be. At week's end, the conference agreed to hire an expediter for the regional training program, admitted a 21st member (the Maldive Islands, a British protectorate southwest of India), and hinted that more donor nations would be welcome. Leading candidate for an invitation: West Germany...
Divorced. Gloria Vanderbilt, 39, who never seemed able to settle down after she got $5,000,000 of the family fortune as a 21st birthday present; and TV-Movie Director Sidney Lumet, 39; by mutual consent on grounds of incompatibility; after seven years of marriage, no children; in Juárez, Mexico...
...with indications that a compromise might emerge. U Thant was reported ready to visit the Borneo territories, without waiting for General Assembly approval, and prepared to make his "ascertainment" without a formal referendum. Sukarno, switching from intransigence to blithe unconcern, took time off to collect an honorary degree (his 21st) from the University of the Philippines, to pursue a pretty Malayan correspondent, and to demonstrate for photographers the intricacies of the lenso, a sort of static Indonesian twist...