Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Four. To those who claim more testing is pointless because it merely develops bigger bombs than are needed, Rockefeller listed four military requirements that could be met by testing...
...world's three biggest art and rare books auction houses. Aside from the Bonnard, two other paintings broke records. A splendid, red-faced Valet de Chambre by Chaim Soutine brought $76,000, nearly four times Soutine's auction record of seven years ago. An even bigger leap in value: a pair of superbly winsome lovers by Marc Chagall for $77,500, whose auction price was about half that only last April...
...great success-while she herself did radiation research on serratia for the Atomic Energy Commission. When Radcliffe asked her to succeed retiring President Wilbur K. Jordan in 1959, she had doubts. Radcliffe seemed to be "cooking along," and her own campus needed help. But she saw a bigger problem: the low motivation of U.S. college girls in general. Radcliffe, "kind of a prestige spot," seemed the best platform in the country from which to set an example...
Packer Coach Vince Lombardi tried to take the news stoically: "Well, no one person is bigger than the team." But Lombardi knew that the loss of Halfback Hornung might well turn the Packers into the patsies of the N.F.L. On every team in pro football, there is one indispensable player-one man on whose individual performance the team's success depends. The Baltimore Colts have Johnny Unitas. The Cleveland Browns have Jimmy Brown. On the Green Bay Packers, the indispensable man is Paul Vernon Hornung...
...Victor Jones, 41, heads the crackerjack industrial team that makes the Q-ball, the Datico, the Polaris star-tracker-and the bodies, brains, eyes and nervous systems of scores of other devices to carry men, or the alert instruments of men, off the earth. Many of its competitors are bigger than Northrop (which, with assets of $128 million, ranks seventh in size among the old-line independent airframe companies), and some have more widely publicized products. But none has a better reputation with the men who manage the U.S. space program, and only a handful can match Tom Jones...