Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scholarship, filmed a documentary in a Manhattan ghetto, and guided Gemini rendezvous in space. He earns $76 a week with Operation Head Start in Philadelphia, picks up $10,800 a year as a metallurgical engineer at Ford, and farms 600 acres of Dakota wheat land. He has a lightning-fast left jab, a rifling right arm, and reads medieval metaphysicians. He campaigned for Reagan, booed George Wallace, and fought for racial integration. He can dance all night, and if he hasn't smoked pot himself, knows someone who has. He tucks a copy of Playboy into his concerto score...
...bombers struck hard and fast in Viet Nam before the 48-hour holiday truce...
...loaded rifle to the ground, and bang! - scratch one hunter. Last fall a nervous Texan tried to club a wounded opossum to death with the butt of his rifle and shot himself in the stomach on the first swing. In October, a Colorado hunter tried to demonstrate a fast draw for the benefit of his buddies, only to discover that his trigger finger was faster than his draw. He drilled a hole right through his foot...
...banks and businesses. "The next big thrust in the economy," he says, "will come from urban development - new concepts of housing, transportation, pollution control. All these things are sitting on the shelf, ready to go, and when the war in Viet Nam ends, domestic development will move fast." America's economy need never run down, because, says Rudy Peterson, "there are so many things that need to be done...
...Mild Viking." But the Viking has a firm hand when necessary, and he may need it as he steers A.T. & T. through some rough sailing. Through 23 subsidiary companies, A.T. & T. controls 85% of all U.S. telephone communications, most long-distance operations, and an increasing share of the fast-growing data-transmission business. It remains a private monopoly largely because of rate accommodations with the Federal Communications Commission and with a bewilder ing variety of state and local regulatory agencies. The FCC is currently engaged in its closest scrutiny yet of A.T. & T. operations. One principal issue...