Word: heaviest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, the huge plane began to live up to the far-out name by which the Air Force had christened it-Valkyrie. At California's Edwards Air Force Base, North American Aviation Test Pilot Al White took the XB-70A off the runway, weighing 500,000 Ibs., the heaviest at which an aircraft has ever flown. During the 1-hr. 40-min. test, the plane set a new record for continuous supersonic flight: 74 min., at speeds ranging from Mach 1.4 (920 m.p.h.) to Mach 2.1 (1,425-m.p.h.) at a peak altitude...
Espionage is heaviest in the electronics, chemical, drug, petroleum and toy industries, but some of it goes on almost everywhere. In a Harvard business-school survey of executives, 25% replied that "spying or other types of undercover information collection had recently been discovered" in their industry; the survey also found that executives under 50 are less concerned than their elders about the ethics of pirating and spying. Some firms go so far as to hire professional spies, plant informers inside other companies, bribe or blackmail employees for information, tap telephones, even sort rubbish. "I'm picking up a couple...
...until after Christmas that the two heaviest freshman wrestlers, Bill Malugen and Dave Goins, joined the team. Before that time, the heavyweight and 191-pound positions were filled by lighter wrestlers, which forced nearly every team member to compete one and sometimes two classes above his own weight...
...first in the fleet twice. Two weeks ago, as 26 boats from eight nations swept out to sea for the start of the Buenos Aires-Rio race, Ondine's chances looked slim indeed. The favorite was Stormvogel, a 73-ft. ketch owned by Dutch Timberman Cornelius Bruynzeel. The heaviest yacht in the race (43 tons), she was the defending champion; in 1962, she won the race in the record time of 191 hrs. 37 min. What's more, she had beaten Ondine all twelve times the two boats...
...mood was apparent in Washington, where some of the nation's leading economists, testifying before the Joint Congressional Economic Committee, almost unanimously predicted uninterrupted expansion. The bullish sentiment was obvious on Wall Street, where the stock market rebounded strongly from last month's fall. In the second heaviest trading in more than a year (7,100,000 shares in one day), the Dow-Jones industrial average rose every day, climbing 18 points to a near-record...