Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every air traveler knows, one of the massive deterrents to flying is the walking it involves. With the coming of the jets and the extra space their blasting exhausts require, airport acreage has multiplied, and the problem has become worse. The hike from check-in counter to the farthest reaches of the San Francisco International Airport is more than a quarter of a mile, or twice around a football field at a nonjog trot. Puffed one woman soon after Atlanta's new $20 million airport opened in May: "I declare, if they had told me I would have...
...that Vice President Lyndon Johnson disgustedly canceled a Harlem campaign tour with Morgenthau. When Jack Kennedy came to town, Morgenthau got his picture taken with the President-who spent most of his time chatting with Nelson Rockefeller. Morgenthau's big campaign theme is that Rocky, if reelected, will hike state taxes next year; whereupon Morgenthau's ticket mate, Democratic State Comptroller Arthur Levitt, blandly remarked that he saw no evidence of any such Rockefeller intention. Last week, to top it all off, poor Bob Morgenthau came down with the flu. This left his campaign schedule in total tatters...
Local spokesmen indicated yesterday that the Cambridge Chapter of the Barbers' Association has not even called a vote on the price hike. They noted that when a ceiling of $1.75 was set several years ago, the Cambridge chapter did not hike prices for two years...
Wine's popularity increases slightly; the continental airs and graces acquired by summer travelers abroad hike the sales of liqueurs...
...hour after hour training muscles, learning survival techniques, studying mountain-craft, developing leadership. In between come big endurance tests: a five-day climb in windswept high country, a six-mile run up and down mountains (best boy's time so far: 38 min. 10 sec.), a 50-mile hike to test speed and accuracy over a specified route, a 48-hour session alone in the woods without food, which becomes a lesson in the edible qualities of roots, berries, frogs and rabbits...