Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other's proposal. After last week's session in the old Hotel Majestic, North Viet Nam's chief delegate, Xuan Thuy, left Paris for his first visit home since the talks began-doubtless to receive fresh instructions. Even so, both sides have already arrived at closer agreement on the principles of a settlement than they publicly acknowledge...
...surface, at least, his persistence brought the forms of peace no closer. North Vietnamese Spokesman Nguyen Thanh Le said that the two positions remained "as different as night from day." Still, U.S. negotiators noted that the session remained refreshingly free of propaganda blasts, and Lodge himself left convinced that "a basis now exists for productive discussions...
Proposals for Chicago's badly needed third jetport include a floating airport constructed of aluminum modules and reached by helibus and Hovercraft. Architect Stanley Tigerman estimates it would cost a relatively modest $500 million. Closer to approval, however, is a $1 billion dike-protected jetport 35 ft. to 55 ft. below the water level of Lake Michigan and connected to the Loop by six miles of causeway, tunnel and bridge. Says Chicago's Aviation Commissioner William Downes Jr.: "The main objection comes from the save-our-lakefront fraternity who don't realize that an airport six miles...
...solar cycle, which averages eleven years, a few sunspots materialize about 35 degrees away from the solar equator in both the northern and southern hemispheres. Some last for a few days or weeks, others for months. As the cycle progresses, the spots occur with greater frequency and appear ever closer to the equator. About five years after the cycle begins, the sunspots increase to a maximum number, and appear around 15 degrees from the equator. During the next six years, the number of sunspots gradually decreases. Before the last of the old spots disappear, about five degrees from the equator...
...time that solar disturbances occur in rather close harmony with the appearance of the sunspots. Thus there were fierce solar storms during and shortly after the record numerical peak in sunspots during 1957-58 and a long lull during the sunspot minimum in 1963-64. There is an even closer connection. Most of the violent solar eruptions occur near clusters of sunspots on the solar surface and seem to derive their energy from the magnetic fields that cause the spots. Suddenly flaring into extreme brilliance, a region hundreds of millions of square miles in area can erupt, shooting a stream...