Word: drop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Escape Route. A case in point occurred during Lyndon Johnson's recent visit to Manhattan to address the National Urban League. Lady Bird was being feted at a private party, a sit-down dinner for 18, and the President decided to drop by to pick her up. That simple excursion from the Hotel Pierre to an apartment on the West Side turned into a major production, the sort that has frayed Johnson's patience-and is certain to fray that of his successor. As L.B.J. described the caper to friends afterward...
Though he went along with enough of Duběek's liberal plans to win a government post as Deputy Premier this year, Strougal shrewdly managed to drop out of sight after the invasion, obviously playing for time in his new choice of loyalties. Whether or not those loyalties now belong fully to the Russians, he fared very well at the Central Committee meeting. He not only won a seat on the new "supercommittee," but also became head of the new Czech party bureau, created as a separate party wing for the nation's Czech majority...
...will thunder to an altitude of 38 miles and a speed of 6,000 m.p.h. in only 2½ minutes. Then, having carried out the herculean task of lifting a 3,100-ton, 363-ft.-long vehicle through the thickest layers of the atmosphere, the giant booster rocket will drop away, and the S-2 second stage will take over. With its five engines producing 1,125,000 Ibs. of thrust, the S-2 will accelerate the shortened vehicle to a speed of 14,000 m.p.h. and hurtle it to an altitude of 119 miles. After...
...Norway, where whale oil has been used as an ingredient in margarine, the price has fallen largely because of heavy competition from fish oil; whale oil is now $163 a ton, one-third less than it was a decade ago. One way to overcome the price drop might be to follow the Japanese example and process every part of a whale, from tooth to tail fluke. But this means a considerable extra investment in factory-ship equipment that the Norwegians are no longer willing to make, especially since their government, while urging them to continue whaling, has offered no subsidy...
...International Harvester are working on turbine-powered trucks that would be feasible on turnpikes. The turbine consumes fuel completely and quietly, producing a low noise level and nontoxic exhaust. But since its high fuel consumption makes the turbine-truck economical only at full throttle, the rigs would have to drop the trailers at terminals just off the expressway. From those terminals, conventional trucks could haul the goods through stop-and-go local traffic...