Word: finished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Systems Command. Boss of the coast-to-coast construction crew is Lieut. General Howell M. Estes Jr., 46, a tough, taciturn veteran of the Strategic Air Command. Estes and his ballistic systems division commander, Major General Thomas P. Gerrity, 47, another SAC veteran, start work at 6:30 a.m., finish at 7 p.m., log 65 hours a week on the job, and expect their staff to do the same. Since the program began in 1956, Estes and his men have discovered that keeping pace with the construction problems that arise at 20 sublocations around the U.S. is a warsized logistical...
Spalding's assurance that today's sluggers are hitting the same old ball is confirmed by its chief seamstress. Mrs. Beryl Gauthier, 49. Mrs. Gauthier heads a crew of 75 women who finish the ball-making process by closing the cover seams with exactly 108 double stitches of red yarn. No baseball fan ("Who's Roger Maris?"), Seamstress Gauthier is firm about her craft: "The ball is just the same as it ever...
...toughest safety test is to inject vaccine directly into the brains of monkeys. If autopsies show any appreciable virus damage to the monkeys' nerve centers, PHS orders the vaccine discarded. Type I vaccine has already passed this rigorous test the required five times; Type II is nearing the finish line. But for reasons unknown, Type III vaccine, from all manufacturers so far reporting, retains some power to damage monkey brains, even though it has been given to almost 100 million people (mostly in the U.S.S.R.), apparently with no ill effects...
...Cicognani the law was a constant source of worry and chagrin because it seemed to curb his talented brother. Once at a dinner a fellow prelate had jokingly said to Gaetano: "Because of you, your brother cannot become cardinal." Gaetano came close to bursting into tears and could not finish his meal...
...week's end, the contest judges-five veteran sailplaners grounded for the occasion-crowned the winner: Architect Andrew J. Smith, 37, a former Navy pilot from Tecumseh, Mich. Smith fetched up enough rising currents to lead the pack past the finish line at Salina, 81 miles away...