Word: beech
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with some financial help from his parents, entered the University of Texas, the undergraduate club for the state's business and political leaders and an academic must for an ambitious young Texan. He stacked books in the library for 17? an hour and doubled as campus representative for Beech-Nut chewing gum. Handsome and articulate, he ran for student body president-partly because the job paid $30 a month-and won. He completed his academic career by marrying the campus beauty, Idanell Brill, University Sweetheart, Cactus Beauty and Relay Queen...
...giant spiders and a reptile collection (starring an 80-year-old alligator) was built in the vaulted chateau cellars; a special baby animal zoo usurped one corner of the grounds; 280 monkeys, brought all the way from Southeast Asia, were set loose and swinging in the 15 acres of beech, oak and hickory trees. Parking facilities were established, as well as a restaurant, picnic area, gas station and that necessary adjunct to the tourist trade, a photo and souvenir shop...
...back as 1965, the 1,113-page report said, Apollo's prime contractor, North American Rockwell, had ordered that specifications for two small electric switches used to cut off the oxygen tank's internal heater be increased to 65 volts. Inexplicably, the subcontractor for the tanks, Beech Aircraft, kept delivering switches with a top rating of only 28 volts. Despite elaborate checkout procedures that were repeated through six previous Apollo manned missions, neither NASA nor its suppliers ever detected the oversight. Indeed, the error might never have been discovered if it had not been seriously compounded by other...
Wichita is as far from Boston's Dorchester-Mattapan section as it is from the Deep South. It is a prairie city, at 300,000 the largest in Kansas, a center of oil and agriculture, a major aircraft producer (Boeing, Beech, Cessna). It is also Middle America. Blacks make up just 12% of its population; it is only by accident of rotation that the single city commissioner who is black will become its next mayor. Wichita is a "placid" sort of place, says outgoing Mayor Donald Enoch. It is deeply conservative; the town fathers banned a proposed Wichita production...
Interviewed by Keyes Beech of the Chicago Daily News, the rescued crewmen on the Rappahannock hooted at reports that McKay and Glatkowski might have acted out of political motives. One said that neither of them could tell "Marx from Lenin." The majority opinion was that both were high on pot, as they had been all through the voyage...