Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When tough, tiny (5 ft. 5 in., 110 lbs.) Chen Cheng, the Vice President and Premier of Nationalist China, flew into Washington's MATS terminal one day last week, the capital simmered in tropical 90° heat. But more than the weather had Chen warm under the collar. After years of concord, relations between the U.S. and her stanchest Pacific ally seemed to be falling into disturbing disarray...
...heat increased, the hated East German Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht was nowhere to be seen. After he failed to appear at an East Berlin reception for Ghana's junketing Kwame Nkrumah, reports circulated that Ulbricht had flown to Moscow for fresh orders and to discuss with Khrushchev new therapy for "the bone in my throat" that is Berlin. At week's end an East German spokesman confirmed that Ulbricht was in Moscow...
After World War II, however, Newton discovered that it could tune in three television channels; it acquired two drive-in movies and an air-conditioned bowling alley. The sound of trumpets and drums seemed to fade into the summer heat. The 45-member band does not even have uniforms any more. The bandstand is long gone, and concerts are held in Themian Park, where facilities consist of folding chairs set under one dim arc of light. On a recent evening only 86 persons were moved to share the sentiments of a local farmer who stretched full length on the grass...
Trotter imposes weights for about 45 stakes races and 50 overnight handicaps each season, gets $25,000 a year for his labors-but does not bet any of it on the horses. Though he has never realized the handicapper's ideal of a multi-horse dead heat, he has had some satisfying moments. His best: for last year's Citation Handicap at Chicago's Washington Park, he assigned 121 lbs. to On-and-On, 114 to Little Tytus and Better Bee, 110 to Top Charger. Then he watched them fight to a photo finish, with only...
...soon as the colony is reasonably snug, the ten colonists (or those who survive) will start a project that will doubtless be close to their hearts: getting back to earth. In the clutter of equipment on their dusty lunar plain, they will find enough rocket engines, heat shields, navigation instruments and other parts to assemble five return vehicles, each of which can blast two men off the moon, return them to the earth and land them on its surface in, hopefully, good condition...