Word: feats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peking, which last July had offered a reward of 8,000 ounces of gold (value $280,000) to any Nationalist pilot who would defect with his U-2 intact, boasted that this one had been "shot down" by an air force unit, but supplied no glorious details of the feat...
...Senate, but neither is he running just for fun. To get on the ballot at all, he had to collect at least 72,500 petition signatures. His devoted band of followers, largely made up of pacifists and ban-the-bomb marchers, actually gathered 117,636-a remarkable feat. He has spent $30,000 on his campaign, piled up debts of $12,000. What is he trying to accomplish? He wants to get a serious public hearing for his ideas on disarmament and disengagement. He also wants to prove that a man without much money can run for high public office...
...Soviet scientists had attempted a similar feat two days earlier, failed. Last week tracking stations picked up three of the Russian rocket components orbiting the earth; the fourth burned up in the atmosphere. The previous Soviet Venus probe in 1961 suffered a radio communications blackout after 18 days...
...statement issued within a few hours of the Soviet change in commandants-a near-record feat for the State Department-the U.S. replied bluntly: "Regardless of how they organize themselves administratively, we continue to hold the Soviet Union responsible for carrying out its obligations in Berlin under existing agreements." It added: "This move appears to be an attempt by the Soviet Union to absolve itself from responsibility for the Communist actions in Berlin which have increased tensions so dangerously in that city...
...undershirts. They cheered hoarsely: "Viva la Francia!" "Vive I'Italic!" Waterfalls & Soft Rock. It was the breakthrough for the world's longest vehicular tunnel, stretching 7.2 miles* beneath the icy, forbidding Alpine massif to join Courmayeur, Italy, and Chamonix, France, the famed ski resort. A magnificent feat of engineering, the French and Italian sections of the horizontal hole, begun on opposite sides of Western Europe's tallest mountain, were only two inches out of line horizontally and three inches off vertically when they came together. After 3½ years of toil and tragedy -including 17 deaths...