Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...riots in Clinton, Tenn., last December, Weekly Editor Horace Wells's Page One Courier-News column calmly argued for peaceful integration of Clinton's high school, helped elect a pro-integration slate to the city council (TIME, Dec. 17). "How long," asked the Courier-News at the height of the hoodlumism, "are the people of Clinton going to continue to sit idly by and see their officials kicked around merely because they believe in law and order?" Georgia's Eastman Times-Journal (circ. 2,530), which was credited with killing off a postwar revival...
When such pictures are being taken, the plane will usually fly at a constant height--about 20,000 feet--and at a constant speed, making parallel flights over a given area about 30 to 50 miles apart. With the additional aid of various types of land surveys, Raisz then makes his maps, transferring the material from larger scale maps to smaller ones. One map can--and has--taken him many months to complete...
...been fast-breaking narratives of a man in the week's news, as at the time when Tito was host to Bulganin and Khrushchev in the spring of 1955, or the detailed exposition of an involved political situation, as in the Eden cover (TIME, Nov. 19) at the height of the Suez crisis. This week's cover story, says Baker, had to combine most of these elements...
...height of the Suez crisis, Chicago's Marsh & McLennan Inc., one of the world's biggest and most diversified industrial-insurance brokers, got a hurry-up call from the U.N. Would M. & M. take on the job of placing insurance for the U.N.'s 4,000-man police force in the Middle East against the hazards of war? Though M. & M. had never heard of such insurance being written before by a private company, it lost no time protecting the international force. Within 24 hours it had arranged for Continental Casualty Co. to write...
Last week, at the height of the season, 6,500 well-heeled guests crammed every room in St. Moritz' 47 hotels. They schussed down the powdery slopes overlooking the little valley, tried the Olympia Ski Jump, which drops a perilous 200 ft., hurtled 1,346 yds. down the ice-banked Cresta Run, one of the world's first artificial toboggan slides (built 1884) at better than a mile a minute. Evenings, the women doffed ski suits for Dior and Balenciaga gowns, and bobsledders slid into tails to mambo through the night. Others simply spent their time quietly breathing...