Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrested him in connection with smuggling 209 Ibs. of pure heroin into the U.S. The narcotics, worth $2,800,000 wholesale and as much as $100 million retail (after cutting and diluting), had been found in a shack at a Columbus, Ga., trailer court. It was the biggest single haul of heroin ever captured...
...Short Haul. Athletes suddenly airlifted from low to high altitude can perform as well as usual in brief events that require only short bursts of maximum exertion. "A trained athlete can run the 100 meters in ten seconds practically without breathing," explains Dr. Daniel F. Hanley of Bowdoin College, chief of the U.S. medical team at the Little Olympics. "You just can't build up any oxygen debt* in ten seconds. And there's no problem at 200 meters or even...
...round-trip range of 4,000 to 6,000 miles and a speed of 1,200 m.p.h., twice that of the earlier B-52s. Thus, for intercontinental strategic missions, the FB-111 would depend on tankers for in-flight refueling. But the movable-wing plane would be able to haul nuclear weapons, air-to-ground missiles or 38,000 Ibs. of conventional bombs...
After the weekly Cabinet meeting, French Premier Georges Pompidou, 54, took over as le boss of the new Haul Comité pour la Défense et l'Expansion de la Langue Française, formed to ferret out all the linguistic "degradation and corruption" of franglais in the land where tons les types enjoy le shopping at le drugstore, having a whisky-soda or gin and tonic served by le barman while they watch the playboys with sex appeal in smokings (tuxes) stroll by on their way to le dancing or le striptease. Ah, M. Pompidou...
Some of the millionaires, of course, like to indulge expensive tastes. Walter Davis, 42, of Odessa, Texas, saw a need for a trucking business to haul oil from out-of-the-way wells to central pipelines, borrowed $5,000 and built a business that has earned him at least $7,000,000; now he lives in a $700,000 house and enjoys gambling $100,000 a weekend on college football games. Even those who are less flamboyant like to live well: John Diebold has a 16th century living room that was transported stick by stick from Sussex, England; Pittsburgh Theater...