Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...English Channel with two leased 38-passenger craft, built by Britain's Westland Aircraft. The vessels will cruise at up to 50 knots, make the Ramsgate-to-Calais voyage in 30 minutes (v. 1½ hours for conventional ships). In 1968, the Swedish firms will get even bigger and faster amphibians: 500-passenger craft that will cross the channel in 18 minutes at cruising speeds of 70 knots, can operate year-round even in rough waves...
...Danang raid, as in many other ways, that "ugly little war" in Viet Nam last week got uglier - and bigger...
While largely overshadowed by the bigger, more explosive battle for Viet Nam, the smouldering war in Malaysia has also intensified in recent months...
...puts a pro football team into Atlanta's spanking-new, $18 million, 57,000-seat stadium next year. The A.F.L. got there fustest (TIME, June 18), but after a three-week scrimmage, Atlanta's city fathers decided that Rozelle and the N.F.L. had the mostest: an older, bigger, better-playing league, and a better-paying one to boot. The N.F.L. franchise goes to Atlanta Insurance Man Rankin M. Smith, 40, who will spend something like $9,000,000 organizing a team and give Atlanta a whacking 10% of the gate as stadium rental...
...nearly tripled, from $537 in 1954 to $1,400 now. When Litchfield arrived, Pitt had 561 full-time faculty members, 56% with Ph.D.s, for its 16,141 students. Today its faculty numbers 1,091, and 84% have Ph.D.s, for a student body that is only about a thousand bigger. Faculty salaries have nearly doubled, averaging $12,126, and the percentage of out-of-state students has grown from about...