Word: heaviest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eleven Harvard couples, including 240-ib. Neil Curtin (the heaviest member of Harvard's football team) and his date, piled unsuspectingly into the Quincy House elevator on the sixth floor shortly before 8 p.m. Saturday night...
...front page. Our lead story one day last week was something like FHA FORECLOSURES AT NEW HIGH. Well, that was the way it was. Then, all of a sudden, the dam broke." Into the Miami News, and into newsrooms all over the U.S., spilled one of the heaviest torrents of big stories ever to tax the resources of the press...
...Djebel Druze, a rugged group of hills in southern Syria, where in 1954 revolt erupted after years of discontent. Shishekly, in a four-week campaign, crushed the Druzes, hammering their mountain strongholds with tanks, planes and artillery. The powerful Druze clan of the Ghazali took some of the heaviest casualties...
Such troubles are almost expected on a radically new ship, and this was the first flight of the heaviest and most complex plane ever built. "I am delighted with the way it went," said White. "We had some malfunctions, but that's why I've got a job. If you don't have malfunctions, you don't need test pilots...
Still Welcomed. Among the heaviest investors abroad are the auto and chemical companies, which have increased their foreign stakes fourfold since 1950. Chrysler recently bought a majority interest in Simca of France and 30% of Britain's Rootes Motors. In West Germany, Ford and General Motors command 37% of the auto market. Other U.S. industries with rapidly expanding foreign holdings: office equipment, farm machinery, petroleum, aluminum, razor blades. For most, the overseas investment pays off handsomely. Last year, earnings on corporate investment abroad grew by 8% to $4.6 billion more than all the U.S. companies sent abroad...