Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students took two weeks and 700 feet of fixed rope to lift their 800 pounds of food and gear to the first ridge, over a 600-foot 60-degree icy slope. After that task was completed the first snow and wind came, preventing further movement the next day. By the fourth day the storm worsened and the group found its tent ripped badly by the wind. Thereafter they used snow caves on their way--first to 15,500 feet and then 17,000 feet...
Experts ruled out The Lone Ranger, said there was no evidence that the plane had exploded in midair. The "explosions," they said, were probably the plane's landing gear hitting treetops as it approached the Ndola field too low. "It looks like a typical case of power failure or faulty instruments," said one. Another possibility: pilot error. Captain Per-Erik Hallonquist, although a veteran of 7,000 hours and countless jungle flights, had been on continuous duty for 36 hours. But some doubt and suspicion would probably always linger over the wrecked DC-6 in the woods outside Ndola...
...quite have the cash for one. In the wellappointed bachelor apartment, the stereo rig replaced the traditional etchings as a lure for the nubile. His costly equipment consisted of two speakers, two amplifiers, a special cartridge for his record player, as well as an assortment of optional gear. His stereo library was comprised mainly of trick noises and demonstration records -drum recitals, incoming tides (on the flip side: outgoing tides), the sound of an olive dropping into a martini, an album called Music to Listen By, a Ping-pong game in which the illusion of the moving ball was vivid...
...General Dynamics, Douglas Aircraft and Boeing Co. all rushed into a market that might have supported one or two of them in comfort. As the planemakers faced the problems posed by bruising speeds and complicated electronic gear, original cost estimates of the jets got left way behind. Said one airframe executive last week: "We'd sound like damn fools if we told you what we first thought they would cost." Talk of reaching a break-even point, where costs finally give way to profits, has now faded from the conversation...
...finished products will be hit harder. This includes high-duty products that compete directly with Europe's fastest-growing industries, such as finished chemicals and steel, machinery and electrical equipment, cars and trucks. But there should always be a brisk market for U.S. specialties, ranging from automated gear to wash-and-wear fabrics. In this year's first quarter. Common Market imports of U.S. office accounting and computing machines more than doubled, to $23 million. Says the Chase Manhattan Bank: "Those U.S. exports will fare best that are unique -in performance, design or cost...