Word: gears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...level, with both teams fumbling the ball around as if it were a live coal. The Crimson had made no first downs (and almost no yardage) in its first five offensive sorties, and general consternation was mounting in the Harvard stands, when suddenly Ravenel shifted his attack into high gear...
Wind, Snow & Tears. At length, as the weather cleared early last week, the rescue crews took off and headed for the floating island. There the men, lugging: what gear they could, tramped through the blackness, stumbling through piles of ice, skirting cracks and ridges. At the runway, they lit gasoline-and paper-filled cans and magnesium flares and waited in the breathless cold as the C-123J cautiously turned for the airstrip. Says George Cvijonovich, scientific leader of the group: "It was really a mixture of astonishment and aesthetics, because the landing was aesthetic at the same time that...
...Terminals. Major U.S. airlines are putting up jet-age terminals and hangars across the country to gear their operations to the jet age. American's $75 million for new facilities will include a $14 million passenger terminal and a $12 million hangar at New York's Idlewild Airport, new hangars in several other cities. Passengers will wait for their flights in comfortable, soundproof lounges, board the jet on a single level through telescopic covered passageways that shoot out to the plane's two doors...
...decade of high-gear progress was proudly reported last week by the American Heart Association as it celebrated the tenth anniversary of its reorganization from a narrow-based group of medical specialists to a broad-based outfit with national public participation. In this period, said President Robert W. Wilkins of Boston at the commemorative meetings in San Francisco, surgery on the heart itself has leaped from a hesitant, tentative approach to one of great confidence: there is now nobody with acquired or congenital heart disease who cannot be considered as a prospect for surgery, and many cases can be helped...
Starts's Olds is a fancy product that is two-thirds the size of the old Olds, comes in black, golden yellow, and fiesta red, has an automatic gear shift. Speed and gas mileage are similar to its rival. Cost: $1,195 f.o.b. Ft. Lauderdale...