Word: heighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heldt's criticism in your Letters column of "organic" foods as insufficient to make Jim Thorpe able to compete with athletes of today: Mr. Heldt, as is usual with the non-Indian, has treed the wrong bark. While everyone knows of the wonderful increase in health, height, weight, etc., of the average "white" because of his "chemically raised foodstuffs," little mention is made of the fact that the Anishinabe (Chippewa) was 6 ft. tall in 1700. The French called us "Sauters" among other names, meaning "Jumpers," for our ancestors went "bounding" through the forest and the short Frenchmen could...
...says "bred a healthy skepticism in me." A handsome, dark-haired six-footer, Weinberger was host of a popular San Francisco TV talk show on public affairs, and once worked as a book reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle. He retains a wry and self-deprecating wit. At the height of bureaucratic tension around Washington over Nixon's call for Government resignations, Weinberger briefed top department heads on their budget cuts. "I can't imagine why," he joked later, "but I couldn't seem to hold their attention." Weinberger and his wife Jane have two grown children...
When Peter Brennan, 54, dons his new soft hat as Secretary of Labor, he will be repaid, as it were, for the hard-hat he presented to the President 2½ years ago. At the height of the public outcry over the U.S. incursion into Cambodia, Brennan organized a massive union march down Wall Street in support of the President. An elated Nixon invited Brennan and other union leaders to the White House, and friendship flowered to such an extent that Brennan rallied New York labor to Nixon for his reelection...
Taking advantage of their superior height advantage, the Crimson out-rebounded the Chiefs, 54-24. Dominating both-backboards, Harvard often got three and four shots at the keep...
Though just one building, the Holiday Inn has become an important indicator of the direction of Square development. The reduction in height is a relief to devotees of a low contour region. Pei architects warned earlier this year that if the Holiday Inn built a high-rise, the Library Corporation might also build towers to prevent the hotel from aesthetically dominating the memorial site...