Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...labor leaders bargain vigorously for early retirement - for everyone but themselves. The average age of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s 29-man policymaking executive committee is 64, but one member is 82, twelve are in their 70s and several are in their late 60s. Last week, at the council's quarterly meeting in Manhattan, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, 71, announced a new policy that will bring change, if not youth, to labor's high command...
...reason, the Gemini 5 astronauts were able to get six or seven hours of sleep daily after the first few crucial days. When they slept in orbit, their heartbeats dropped to the high 30s. As they maneuvered their spacecraft and performed experiments, the beats rose to the 60s and 70s, which is about normal for them on earth. During the critical retro-fire sequence before splashdown, their hearts raced to the highest of the eight days-180. Still, no ill effects...
...family to New York City, became physician to such eminent families as the Guggenheims. Bernard graduated from New York's City College at 19, also became an enthusiastic boxer who ever after took enormous pride in his well-muscled, 6-ft. 3-in. physique; well into his 70s, he worked out with dumbbells. After college, he went to work on Wall Street, took with him the conviction that "all there is to economics is the law of supply and demand. The rest is hokum...
...gathering such statistics he is often accused of invading the privacy of individuals, but "we're not interested in individuals, only in patterns, and we have an obligation to do exactly what we're doing so that we may learn to recognize the problems of the '60s and '70s...
...Houston last week, four huge Carrier motors that will climatize the city's new Astrodome-enclosed sports stadium were test-run in preparation for next month's baseball season opener. The equipment will keep temperatures under the dome in the moderate 70s, and will also clear away cigarette and cigar smoke so that outfielders can see a baseball 550 ft. away. The air conditioners will operate continuously; if the motors were turned off between games, so much humidity would collect under the dome that rain would fall indoors...