Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lying coastal areas, the air is compressed and heated-five degrees for every 1,000 ft. of descent. As a result, the Santa Anas often bring 100° temperatures with them-though temperatures in the Great Basin where they started may have been only in the 70s or 80s at the time. During its precipitate plunge toward the coast, the Santa Ana loses much of its remaining moisture, sometimes bringing Los Angeles humidity readings down...
Sweating heavily, with both temperature and humidity in the 80s, Johnson peeled off his jacket, self-consciously patted his paunch, then sprang another surprise. He presented Westmoreland with a Distinguished Service Medal "for his courage, for his leadership, for his determination, and for his great ability as a soldier and as a patriot." Like the good soldier he is, the general betrayed no surprise, did not even turn his head when he heard the news. "American fighting men," concluded the President, "you have the respect, you have the support, you have the prayers of a grateful President...
...train, live in a shyly elegant ranch house in Westfield, N.J., an hour's trip by train and ferryboat from Wall Street. Thomson, in Merrill Lynch fashion, is an eager train-and evening-out bridge player; though he has a bent-armed swing, he plays golf in the low 80s, has certificates to prove that he has thrice scored holes in one. His two children, both grown and married, remain close to the marketing place. Son Donald, 34, an Amherst graduate, is a registered representative in a Merrill Lynch New York branch office. Daughter Joan, 30, is married...
...primary interest only to other sexologists. But they are already being put to good medical use, helping to make it possible for supposedly infertile couples to have children, helping to prolong the enjoyment of a healthy and normal sex life for aging couples at least into their 80s. And other universities are already following Washington's lead in setting up programs for the study of what they politely call "reproduction," and treatment of associated problems...
...problem only economic, for by this time Rhee was getting into his 80s. Tragically, at the very time he could have been most useful to his country, he had become too old and inflexible to serve it well. Fading fast were the lofty visions of democracy for which he had gone to jail so long ago. Now his high-handed ways were earning him bitter enemies among the most enlightened groups in the country. Charges of corruption flew thick and fast around his Cabinet. In 1960 he was re-elected to a fourth term, but in a flurry of rigged...