Word: busiest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both students and faculty refer to it as "Wonderful Wednesday." Initially puzzled by what to do with their unexpected leisure, some students turned Wednesday into a midweek Sabbath, spent their mornings sleeping off Tuesday night's beer party. For others, though, Wednesday has turned out to be the busiest time of the week, and the library is always jammed with students catching up on assigned reading. "When I want to use a desk in the stacks, I have to get there early," says Dr. Grant Kaiser, chairman of the romance-languages department, "or I'm out of luck...
...busiest TV performers during the strike against the networks has been the Ampex Corp. of Redwood City, Calif. As the supplier of 75% of the complex electronic equipment used in television production, Ampex accounts for most of the video tape recorders that are now working overtime, unreeling reruns while live stars man the picket lines...
...billion pieces of mail annually, as much as all other countries combined. The increase in the past year alone was 6% - twice the anticipated rise. As a result, in late September and early October the Post Office suffered some snarls and snafus - particularly in Chicago, the nation's busiest relay point. Even after that crisis abated, one large direct-mail company reported a ten-day delay in sending third-class mail from Manhattan to Brooklyn...
Despite a barrage of denials -"I have not made a decision and I am not a candidate" -Michigan Governor George Romney last week began running like a man who likes a good distance between himself and the field. In one of the busiest weeks of his political career, he all but openly entered the lists for the Republican presidential nomination...
...Hong Kong ricksha boy or postcard vendor to name the biggest, busiest, most beneficent U.S. corpora tion, and chances are that he'll answer chop-chop. General Motors...