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Word: fittings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Commissioner would be a $28-000-a-year Presidential appointee, whose term would last as long as the President saw fit. The President would appoint the Council, on a ward basis, for overlapping two-year terms. Their position would be only part-time, and the chairman would be appointed by the President, not elected by the Council. All top officials would have to be city residents...

Author: By Barbara J. Fields, | Title: D.C. Rule | 3/21/1967 | See Source »

...descent. Just as snowmobiling has become the latest U.S. fad (TIME, Feb. 17), the sport of ski bobbing has caught on in Europe. Ski bobs range in price from $100 to $150, look like small bicycles on skis, weigh about 17 lbs., and can readily be dismantled to fit into car trunks. The tubular metal frame has handle bars connected to a short pivoting ski in front, and a well-padded saddle moored to a longer fixed ski in back. For added balance, ski bobbers wear mini-skis fitted with braking crampons on both feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Ski Bob Bobbing Along | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

...wishes that manufacturers would stop selling candy-flavored aspirin, because this makes it more dangerous to children. But the FDA has not yet seen fit to issue a ruling on that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Limits on Children's Aspirin | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

Once upon a time there was a definite need for schools which offered preparation for college, public education not being adequate enough nor tutorial education uniform enough to meet the universities' requirements. For this reason (as well as to convert boys into moral men, fit for the best banking houses and clubs of the Eastern Seaboard) the Endicott Peabodys of the world opened up their schools in forgotten corners of New England. There they provided a needed educational service for several generations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PREP SCHOOLS | 3/15/1967 | See Source »

...succeeding years the lottery could be conducted as the Commission suggests. All men physically and mentally fit to serve would be given a randomly determined position in the order of call. The military would then call up as many men as needed. If a man was passed over in his 19th year, he would be placed at the bottom of later orders of call, and could trust that he would not be called...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Draft By Lottery | 3/11/1967 | See Source »

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