Word: heaviest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...translucent paper in geometric blocks or bright floral patterns. The inner bamboo frame is as delicately engineered as one of Nervi's tilted arches. Although they look fragile, Reynolds' bangasa are stronger in the wind than regular umbrellas, which reliably invert just when wind and rain are heaviest...
Longest & Heaviest. As they set off for a planned 14-day, 206-orbit flight-longer by six days and 86 revolutions than any previous mission-they could expect better news yet. If all goes well, by the time Borman and Lovell splash down on Dec. 18, they will have been in the air for as long as the longest estimated Apollo mission to the moon will take. They will have flown the heaviest (more than four tons) Gemini capsule yet, and undergone the most extensive in-flight medical tests. (Borman had two spots shaved on his head and depilatory rubbed...
...York bookstores, which face the heaviest discount competition, have shown the industry how to fight back. Doubleday, whose two biggest-volume stores are within five blocks of each other on Fifth Avenue, offers a fast checking service, easy exchange of books bought at other stores, handsome wrapping and a record department. Brentano's has added ancient and modern art in original and reproduction, adult games and library furniture. Rizzoli has the elegance of an 18th century library, plans to offer browsers authentic espresso made with water imported from Italy. "Our customers are doing more than exchanging money...
...four-engine, pure jet C-5A will be big enough to carry 600 armed troops or the army's heaviest trucks and tanks, yet nimble enough to land on short, front-line airstrips. It will make possible direct flights from the U.S. to any trouble spot in the world, also has enormous potential as a commercial carrier that could transport both passengers and air cargo on international flights at much lower fares than at present. It will fly 30% faster (550 m.p.h.) than Russia's huge AN-22, which is only a turboprop, carry twice the payload...
...drop escapes the notice of the country's watchers. When the seas begin to seep into fresh-water wells near Tel Aviv, engineers pump fresh water into rock cavities between the wells and the sea, building up a barrier against seawater intrusion. Since agriculture is Israel's heaviest user of water, Israeli scientists are systematically searching for the answer to a question that has plagued farmers throughout history: How much water does each crop actually need? Using radioactive tracer materials, American-born Soil Physicist Daniel Hillel is keeping track of irrigation water as it enters the fields...