Word: heighte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Given an arbitrary height of 300 ft. at which to fly, the distance traveled in 90 sec. would be a mere 25,000 miles. To make it in the alloted time, Superman would have to travel at a cool 1 million m.p.h. This may be within his capacity, but Miss Lane could never survive. The air friction at that speed would reduce her to a pile of red-hot carbon ash and cruelly terminate her affair with our red-caped hero. Finally, it is unlikely that Superman and his lady love would even stay in earth orbit at the speed...
When Chairman Daniel Haughton and President A. Carl Kotchian were forced to resign last year at the height of the payments scandal, Lockheed seemed likely to stall like a disabled jet. That it did not is due largely to Robert Haack, former president of the New York Stock...
...countries, including the U.S. The Arab Bank is widely known in the Middle East as the P.L.O. Bank, but its Jerusalem-born president, Abdel Majeed Shoman, 65, is handsomely repaid for whatever risks he may take in helping his fellow Palestinians invest their growing wealth. During the height of the Lebanese fighting, for instance, Shoman's Beirut branch was heavily guarded by Arafat's fighters. While many of Beirut's 79 other banks were being burned and pillaged, the Arab Bank operated without interruption throughout...
...fuming. A volunteer for a police lineup, due to meet Cauthen on a rundown street in Kenosha, Wis., was more than an hour late. As Cauthen was about to give up and leave, he spotted another man who fit the general description of the volunteer-young, medium height and black-so the FBI man offered him $5 plus a ride home for standing in the lineup at the Waukesha County Jail, 40 miles and an hour's drive away. Without hesitation, Willie Walls Jr., 21, agreed and jumped into the agent's car. That was to prove...
...announced highlight of the fireworks display was the explosion of a specially built 126-pound rocket, the largest ever shot off in the United States. Although the gargantuan rocket exploded several hundred feet below its anticipated height of 2000 feet, the crowd was visibly awed by the tremendous multi-colored burst...