Word: formful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...competing by their eighth birthday. With the phenomenal growth of age-group swimming, there are now some 3,000 clubs tutoring upwards of 275,000 water babies. Starting at the age of six or seven, promising youngsters paddle more than two miles a day to build themselves into racing form. Soon they are competing in club aquacades against others their own age in hopes of winning an A.A.U. badge and national recognition. By the time they are twelve, today's swimmers are accomplished veterans, harder of limb, sounder of lung and infinitely faster than their predecessors...
...seven-week experiment is Eastern Air Lines, which started the hourly shuttle service on the Boston-New York-Washington run 7½ years ago and carried 3.3 million passengers along that route last year. Eastern, as well as federal aviation agencies, hopes the testing will lead to a new form of short-range transportation. "Door-to-door" flights from small airports inside or on the edge of cities would save time and would not interfere with long-and medium-haul operations...
Determined to remedy that oversight, Bill White became embroiled with First National after it decided to form a holding company, a step that two rival Denver banks had already taken as a way of circumventing a Colorado law prohibiting branch banking. When the Whites suggested last month that five family-owned banks in southern Colorado be included in the holding company, called the First National Bancorporation, the bank replied that it would consider the request only after the new company went into operation...
Hemophilia is not just "the disease of kings," although it was so called after Queen Victoria transmitted the deadly trait to Russia's Romanovs and a dozen other royal-blooded descendants. As many as 40,000 Americans, commoners all, are estimated to suffer from the severe, "classical" form of the ailment. Doctors have learned to control most victims' bleeding episodes with transfusions and intravenous injections. But the techniques involved have been complex, cumbersome and costly. Only recently has medical research advanced sufficiently to simplify the process and cope with the problems of supply...
...Dylan this song is a transition to a new form, and it fits nicely with the band's own songs. The Big Pink sound is not as glamorous as straight rock, but its simple folk flavor, spiced with a hint of rock, is a welcome change...