Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bigger and slower than Champion Patterson, Liston is working hard on speed, stamina and agility: he is well aware that he must catch Patterson before he can hit him. Once he gets within range, Liston is supremely confident of the result. At least he talks a great fight in advance. "I don't care when, where, or how we fight," he says. "I don't even care if Patterson's manager referees the fight. Just so long as he can count...
...BUILDING BIGGER BOOSTERS...
...even bigger booster, the Saturn C1, is not a military weapon at all but an integral part of the Apollo man-on-the-moon project. Developed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Ala., its first stage is largely the creation of famed Wernher von Braun, who designed V-2 rockets for the Nazis in World War II. With eight H-1 (Atlas) engines bound together to produce 1,500,000 Ibs. of thrust, the Saturn C-1 has been test-flown twice from Cape Canaveral, and it worked perfectly each time. The future star...
...twelve lending institutions headed by Morgan Stanley and Arnhold & Bleichroeder have lent Siemens $25 million as part of its two-year, $250 million expansion (much of which will be paid for out of profits). With expanded plant, Siemens intends to give stiffer competition in world markets to its three bigger U.S. competitors−General Electric. Western Electric and Westinghouse−and to increase sales from last year's $1.2 billion to $1.4 billion next year...
Marilyn Monroe is dead, perhaps having outlived the Hollywood she once symbolized; the era of flamboyant, larger than larger than-life production, whose scale somehow was less and less appropriate to the grand stories the movies tried to tell as it grew bigger and bigger. So that the spectacular biblical epics, for example, could never suggest the dimensions of the Christ story with anything like the power of the modest He Who Must Die. But if, in fact, the old Hollywood is passing, El Cid is as fine a note for it to go out on as one could wish...