Word: erful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only wear turtlenecks but also sport luxuriant beards and mustaches. At Ealing Corp., a learning-systems and optics company in Cambridge, Mass., President Paul D. Grindle thinks nothing of going to work wearing shimmering green slacks with a red silk shirt, welcomes similar flamboyance in his employees. "The mini-er the better," he says. "People seem snappier, jazzier and zippier when dressed in mod styles...
...command radar operators on the northernmost tip of Hokkaido Island radioed a warning. "You are off course," chided the Japanese. "Turn south." But the message was lost amid crackling static, and Seaboard World Airlines Flight 25 3 A was already 80 nautical miles north of its course. Moments lat er, Pilot Joseph Tosolini was radioing that intercepting MIG fighters were forcing him to land on Iturup, one of the Soviet Kurile Islands. For Tosolini, 214 U.S. servicemen bound for Viet Nam aboard Flight 253A and the crew of 16, the interrupted maiden flight of the brand-new giant...
...leader?" shouts the crowd at Resurrection City. "Ab-er-nath-y," comes the chanted rejoinder. All across the country, as he seeks to raise funds and fervor for his Poor People's Campaign in Wash ington, Ralph David Abernathy, 42, hears the same cry. Less than two months after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the new president of the Southern. Christian Leadership Conference is doing his best to dispel doubts about S.C.L.C.'s ability to carry on. "You can kill the dreamer," he repeatedly tells audiences, "but you can't kill the dream...
...Disney was far more than a Br'er Babbitt who made it big cracker-barreling the virtues of hard work and good clean fun. He was, as Schickel generously illustrates, a masterful organizer, bold technological innovator and a zealous, often ruthless go-getter in the idealized American tradition. He had a compulsion to order, cleanse and control in ever-expanding circles. Disneyland, once described as "the world's biggest toy lor the world's biggest boy," consumed most of his interest in the last years of his life. When it came to technical matters...
Schools & Water Wells. Spam's oth er African colonies are also moving ahead, though at a slower pace. In the Spanish Sahara, a wind-blown waste populated by 40,000 nomads and 20,000 troops and government officials, Spain is pouring $28 million into the de velopment of vast underground phos phate reserves - the world's largest -and spending another $9,000,000 a year to put up schools, dig water wells for tribesmen and persuade the suspicious Saharans that the Spanish are really on their side. In a recent referendum, 14,000 out of 16,000 persons...