Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suffered little depreciation. Chief Big Tree has so much mettle, in fact, that he traveled down from his home near Syracuse, N.Y., to help the Chase Manhattan Bank observe the 100th anniversary of the first U.S. nickel. The celebration featured a nickelodeon, a cigar-store Indian and a carrousel buffalo. Alas, the original beast on the nickel's flip side was turned into a robe...
...terminals and scores of overlapping maintenance plants, the two lines will save up to $100 million a year by 1974. More important to customers, the efficiencies of combination will cut the freight transit time by 11 % from New York to Chicago, 27% from Boston to Cincinnati, and 36% from Buffalo to St. Louis...
...focus legislative attention on the chief causes of accidents, about which auto experts have little precise data, the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory announced that it will conduct a three-year study of accidents in Buffalo, N.Y. Said Dr. B. J. Campbell, head of the laboratory's accident research division: "We don't want to make a massive allocation of the country's resources to combat an accident cause that maybe ranks only 87th among causes." The study will be financed with $800,000 from the Automobile Manufacturers Association...
...pistol that shot Abraham Lincoln is preserved in Ford's Theater, now a Washington museum. The gun that killed Garfield is sous cloche in the Justice Department. The weapon that took McKinley's life is kept by a historical society in Buffalo, where he was shot. Last week the nation was assured that the 6.5-mm. Italian-made Mannlicher-Carcano rifle with which Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F. Kennedy would not end up in a private collection or a public peep show...
...thing, the military situation, thanks to the American buildup, has improved, so that the South Vietnamese government can now provide security to at least a fraction of its citizens. And security is the stuff of which loyalty is made. Says one U.S. expert: "The man behind the water buffalo wants above all to know that he's going to wake up alive tomorrow." Another thing is the positive attitude on the part of the government. Declares Premier Ky: "We can take this revolution away from the Communists. We can show the people that we can give them more...